The most terrible thing is! ! !

Haskell 2021-11-29 08:01:21

"The men lured into the van by Scarlett Johansson's character were not actors. Jonathan Glazer had hidden cameras installed in the van and only informed the men afterwards that they were in a movie."
-imdb


(One theory suggests that The Female is actually a Selkie instead of an alien. Selkies are mythological creatures found in Scottish, Irish, and Icelandic folk lore. Selkies are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land. Selkies are described as being very beautiful in their human form, and as having great seductive powers.)

An alien hunter who is tempted by the advantages of human nature to become a human being, and is finally killed by a dehumanized human.
『'At the end of the film, we now understand why Laura's predecessor was crying. She had come to appreciate the humanity in the creatures that Laura will soon be harvesting. Tragically, Laura, who undergoes the same transformation, meets a premature end at the hands of an inhuman human.'by awsmith 』



Also, seeing so many people who only focus on the nude, starring figure, and comment on her body, can be regarded as seeing the absurdity derived from a movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Angel 2021-11-29 08:01:21

    Desire is food, what is a skin

  • Myrl 2022-03-23 09:01:48

    In fact, it is a story about "feeling": under the stimulation of desire, the heroine transforms from the object of perception to the subject of perception, so she also falls from the identity of the hunter to the fate of being hunted.

Under the Skin quotes

  • Female: You're not from here? Where are you from?

    Camper: I'm from Czech Republic.

    Female: Why are you in Scotland?

    Camper: I just... wanted to get away from it all.

    Female: Yeah? Why here?

    Camper: Because it's... It's nowhere.

  • Female: So, why do you shop at night, then?

    The Deformed Man: People wind me up.

    Female: How?

    The Deformed Man: They're ignorant.