Films/DVD Asylum

Just saw "Under the Skin" on DVD. . .

76.126.5.126

Chris from Lafayette

. . . using English subtitles. MUCH better than watching in the theater with no subtitles! ;-)

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What do you think it meant? Nt - geoffkait 15:16:50 12/23/14 (1)
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- Sorry for the late reply - Chris from Lafayette 09:53:57 12/26/14 (0)
  I believe the alien creature is moved by human kindness - as when she falls in the street and people help her up and make sure she's OK. Much as humans at some point might be moved to stop consuming animals, so too the alien is moved not to destroy humans for consumption. Unfortunately, the restaurant scene shows she is not able to consume human food either. At this point, she has yet to encounter human savagery, but the final couple of scenes, where one guy wants sex for his kindness, and the guy I called the forest ranger actually tries to rape her are the other parts of the human equation. She is not prepared for this kind of savagery, with disastrous consequences. IMHO, the theme of human duality looms large in this film.
  
  "Nothing human is foreign to me"
  -Publius Terentius (Terence) c. 160 BC
So� you liked it? I found it fascinating. Original, suspenseful, with a directorial panache rarely seen these - tinear 10:19:54 12/22/14 (2)
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- Certainly I liked it - even in the theater. . . - Chris from Lafayette 09:21:49 12/23/14 (1)
  . . . where the unsubtitled Scottish brogue meant that I only understood every fifth word. Scarlett excepted of course!
  - If she could play an instrument (�), you'd propose over the web, I bet� nt - tinear 11:25:13 12/23/14 (0)
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Such sperlage! - Billy Wonka 14:32:20 12/21/14 (0)
Agree. When I watch it at home I do use subtitles for the first half of the movie.
Hey - Awe-d-o-file 12:20:24 12/21/14 (1)
That mannequin is raping that chick. Usually mannequins don't even have a......never mind- sorry, I was bored.

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Edits: 12/21/14
- [Spoiler Alert] Scarlett was already decapitated in that pic - Chris from Lafayette 14:12:14 12/21/14 (0)
  The forest ranger WAS trying to rape her, but then she shed her human skin (with the head intact, I guess) and foiled him. Of course, he got mad and came back with a can of gasoline to pour on her alien incarnation and burned her up. End of movie.

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