Under the Skin Indie Movie Reveals, Reviews and Updates: 2014 Ninth Highest Grossing Film in the United States

Under the Skin Indie Movie Reveals, Reviews and Updates: 2014 Ninth Highest Grossing Film in the United States

2014 has seen quite a few independent movies that have brought back the art to film making. Films like Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel and now Under the Skin have proven that not all is lost and that good film making is still very much present with us. Directed and Co written by Jonathan Glazer the movie is based on a book by the same name written by Michael Faber. Film4 and BFI pumped 8 million dollars into the project that was first shown on 29^th August 2013 at the Telluride Film Festival; since then it has seen a 14^th March 2014 release date in the U.K and a 4^th April 2014 release in North America.

The movie is about an alien seductress in Scotland. The movie opens with a motorcyclist retrieving a young woman's body from the side of the road placing her in the back of a van where a naked woman strips her naked and wears her clothes. This mysterious woman then drives around Scotland picking up men and leading them to their doom in a vat of liquid that she keeps in her apartment. Their bodies vanish in this liquid leaving juts their skin behind. Among the people traps are a swimmer and a man with facial neurofibromatosis whom she allows to flee no doubt because of his good heart. She meets a man whose intentions are pure who means only to seduce her. She is confused by her feelings for him and runs away to the forest. While asleep, a logger comes along and tries to rape her, in the struggle her human skin is torn revealing a black featureless body underneath. The logger then burns her alive.

The plot is bare and simple and the acting had to be spectacular to pull it off. Scarlett Johansson plays our man eating alien. How the Glazer came across the rest of the cast is more interesting. For the man with facial neurofibromatosis rather than use prosthesis he auditioned people with actual facial disabilities. Most of the scenes where she picked up the men were actual unscripted conversations with men on the street captured by hidden cameras. The movie has received mixed reviews but we think it is worth checking out because according to numbers it is the ninth highest grossing film in the United States in 2014.

 

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