Watching "Under the Skin" is an unexpected encounter. I haven't seen any previews before. I just saw Scarlett's starring, my eyes lit up, and the goddess is here, let's take a look. Unexpectedly, this is a tangled, painful and intriguing affair, what kind of movie is this! You can ask the goddess to take off, put on, and take off a few thin clothes. The missing shots are not only of women.
However, this is a movie that is not well-reviewed in China. The plot is not lively, passionate, or tortuous. The foreshadowing seems too long, and the ending doesn’t seem to be shocking enough. Most of the dialogues are just small plots, and the pictures that really promote the plot are Silent, there are too few things to explain, too many things to speculate and imagine, peculiar lighting and shadow processing, weird background music, this kind of movie will probably torture the fragile patience of many people, if it were me ten years ago , won't read it at all.
First of all I want to praise Scarlett. She is not an actress who depends on her face to eat, because her face is not delicate enough, and most of the films she starred in are female characters. Even if she started as a girl with hanging silk in "Super Body", she quickly counterattacked and became a goddess. What I want to praise is Scarlett's daring to take off, she takes off completely, and it is unobstructed. An actress who is so red and purple dares to act in such a movie, presumably it is not grandstanding. Here is a little bit of my personal preference: in this era of relying on the face to eat, most actresses are pursuing a delicate face. This face should be thin, with a high nose bridge and a pointed chin. This face represents your one person, Get the majority of the audience to give you an 8. However, when a woman is naked, the slap-sized part that can score an 8 has expanded a dozen times, and almost all men who like to judge their opinions pay more attention and harshness to other parts of a woman except the face-even if Most men are surrounded by women that are far less likely than this actress, and that won't stop the online world and news media from gathering a swamp of critics' bile overnight, and the actress is likely to drown in this swamp. Can't get 6 points. So taking off, what is needed is the courage of an actress.
Many people say that this movie is about human nature, and I agree. However, what does it rely on to talk about human nature, or what extraordinary means does the director use to express human nature? I think there are two things that can best express human nature, one is human eyes, and the other is human emotions. It is difficult for us to believe that a person with twinkling eyes has no emotions, and it is difficult to imagine a person with rich emotions. His eyes are rigid, and that's what director Jonathan used. People often say that the eyes are the window to the soul, and the eyes can express one's inner world. These two things represent the most splendid part of human nature and complement each other, but one is figurative and the other is abstract, which can be expressed together. , like a skilled luthier and a performer.
I want to talk about the eyes first. There are many descriptions of eyes in this movie. At the beginning, a light and shadow flashes to a pupil, which may imply that an eye has formed, and this eye is rigid and lifeless. Then there are too many first-perspective lenses using this eye, observing all kinds of people from shopping malls, observing all kinds of passers-by from walking cars, seducing men who are not beautiful and ugly, and some heroines driving to watch For the side shots in the distance, at first I felt that some shots were too long. If I looked carefully, the long shots would not even blink an eye. Later, the heroine’s boss didn’t use dialogue when connecting with her, but just stared at her. Her eyes, why is there a close-up that zooms in on Scarlett's eyeshadowed eyes? Did BOSS suspect her change by looking at her eyes? However, her eyes are indeed changing. There are more shots of blinking, more shots of curiosity, more things to look for, and even began to escape. After falling in love with that man, when she held that man's face, do you think the eyes were gentle enough?
At the end, when the heroine ripped off that face, that eye was still rolling, we can see, is that eye a touch of sadness, disappointment or pain? I dare not say that the eyes run through the whole plot, but the director gave us what he wanted to express, which is emotion.
This is the biggest feature of this film is that it does not directly use emotional changes to express a non-human-to-human transformation, but uses the reduction of the opposite of emotions as the enrichment of human nature. What a clever method. What is the opposite of emotion? It is emotionlessness, greed, and desire. The English word "lust" makes sense to explain human desire and sexual desire together, because the most natural desire of human beings is sexual desire, even beasts. There are too many scenes of the heroine showing her nakedness in the opening chapter, and even a few long shots are from behind to let the audience fully appreciate the actress's legs, hips and waist. Scarlett's capital is not low, and she has a lot of masturbation points. I think the director wanted to give the audience a sensual feeling that filled the first half of the movie and made a lot of self-deceiving people sick. However, in the second half of the film, there is no such feeling anymore. What kind of place did a woman who got lost in the fog go to? What is a woman in a thick cotton coat looking for in the lonely pine forest? What could there be in the wet mountains, and even she was lying in a small wooden hut and fell asleep cutely. I think the director did not directly say that her emotions were enriched, but she was saying that she gave people less desire, It's gone, pure, and sublimated, isn't it? A female devil who used to seduce men is finally afraid of someone who will rape her. Why is she afraid, because she has grown up and become a woman.
At the end of the film, everything about her will be buried in the rich soil of this world, with a wisp of green smoke accompanied by heavy snow. is a good ending.
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