Under the Skin is a sci-fi thriller directed by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Mihir Faber. The film tells the story of a human-skinned alien who hunts humans around the earth. The story of being burned to death. The structure of the film is relatively simple and can be roughly summarized into three parts: Observe, communicate, seduce. Through these three parts, the film shows the audience different human nature through Scarlett's perspective, which is mixed with desire, awakening, love, etc. The first half of the film is basically about Scarlett in human skin to seduce men. There are very few dialogues in the film. They always ask about family information and work situation, and finally borrow the topic of girlfriends to arouse their desires. Starman's mechanized work mode is also to point out that these men are hooked entirely because of Scarlett's beautiful skin. The first half of the men who became hunting objects are the key points, because they actually represent a type of people. And the reason they were killed was destined to be their desires. Whether or not to have desires is not a matter of individual human beings. Even if people have different attributes, desires are still shared by human beings. The characters of several men in the film are different, but they are all led into the abyss by desire in the end. Before that, Scarlett was expressionless, as if we had a very ordinary dinner, but when Scarlett seduced an ugly man and looked in the mirror, the seeds of humanity took root in her heart Germination, which represents the awakening of her sense of humanity, the mirror plays a crucial role in the film, it is the mirror that gave Scarlett the bud of humanity, and the mirror witnesses Scarlett's change step by step. After Scarlett had human consciousness, she began to try to integrate into human beings. She tried to eat human food, thinking about what she wanted to have in her heart under the many skins in the world, she began to try to love someone and have feelings. In the end, it changed from "hunter" to "prey". The flies that appear in the film are a good metaphor for this. They have the consciousness of human nature, but they can only see the light like the flies on the glass, but can't find a way out. Women can successfully conquer and hunt men with their bodies, but when they change their self-identity and try to get close to men with their spirits, they get a tragic ending. Only "humanity" cannot survive in this world. "Humanity" here refers to the "good" aspect. Scarlett only understands the good side of human beings, and the growth of humanity under her skin is limited to this. However, she did not know that some basic human needs are often irrelevant to good and evil, such as human security needs. In the value sequence of human beings, the value of safety always seems to be the highest value. As long as safety needs to be threatened, other behaviors to achieve the purpose of safety, whether good or evil, are of no importance, so this is the lumberjack burning her to death. one of the reasons. Only "humanity" cannot survive in this world. "Humanity" here refers to the "good" aspect. Scarlett only understands the good side of human beings, and the growth of humanity under her skin is limited to this. However, she did not know that some basic human needs are often irrelevant to good and evil, such as human security needs. In the value sequence of human beings, the value of safety always seems to be the highest value. As long as safety needs to be threatened, other behaviors to achieve the purpose of safety, whether good or evil, are of no importance, so this is the lumberjack burning her to death. one of the reasons. Only "humanity" cannot survive in this world. "Humanity" here refers to the "good" aspect. Scarlett only understands the good side of human beings, and the growth of humanity under her skin is limited to this. However, she did not know that some basic human needs are often irrelevant to good and evil, such as human security needs. In the value sequence of human beings, the value of safety always seems to be high. As long as safety needs to be threatened, other behaviors for the purpose of safety, whether good or evil, are of no importance, so this is the lumberjack burning her to death. one of the reasons.
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