I was just thinking about Under The Skin, which is one of the most memorable films I’ve ever seen and certainly deserves to have a following, after watching Poor Things. Struck me that the protagonists are similarly ‘alien’, but the power dynamics are reversed. Bella gains agency as the film goes on; The mystery woman in Under The Skin loses hers.
Under the Skin has stuck with me too even though I saw it shortly after it was released. There are some scenes that I simply cannot forget (that ending...). And I remember feeling confused after watching it. Confusion at my mixed levels of sympathy for the men in the film and what happened to them, and then rage at how the alien was treated.
Contrast that with the trailer for JLo’s film, where I’m definitely feeling confused. Although I also cannot seem to stop thinking about it!
I was just thinking about Under The Skin, which is one of the most memorable films I’ve ever seen and certainly deserves to have a following, after watching Poor Things. Struck me that the protagonists are similarly ‘alien’, but the power dynamics are reversed. Bella gains agency as the film goes on; The mystery woman in Under The Skin loses hers.
Under the Skin has stuck with me too even though I saw it shortly after it was released. There are some scenes that I simply cannot forget (that ending...). And I remember feeling confused after watching it. Confusion at my mixed levels of sympathy for the men in the film and what happened to them, and then rage at how the alien was treated.
Contrast that with the trailer for JLo’s film, where I’m definitely feeling confused. Although I also cannot seem to stop thinking about it!