Under the skin
Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi horror-flick, starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing.
Plot? Here's what you need to know: An unnamed
woman, played by Scarlett Johansson with unshakably alluring menace, cruises the
streets of Scotland in a cargo van looking for men. She's not the usual
femme fatale. She's an alien, and what she does to these guys, well,
that's for you to find out.
Glazer, a music-video director credited with two
provocative features (Sexy Beast, Birth), has joined with writer Walter
Campbell to adapt Michael Faber's 2000 novel into a story Faber himself might
not quite recognize. As adaptations go, this one's a highwire act. Using hidden
digital cameras, Glazer shows us real Scots reacting to this sexy beast behind
the wheel. The effect is eerie and electrifying. Glazer attempts to let us see
the human world through the eyes of a nonhuman, evocatively reflected in Mica
Levi's score.
By the time this alien begins to see humans as more
than specimens, Under the Skin has allowed us to view ourselves with
fresh eyes. Johansson is phenomenal in every sense of the word. She joins Glazer
in creating a brave experiment in cinema that richly rewards the demands it
makes. The result is an amazement, a film of beauty and shocking gravity.
“A brilliant meditation on what it means to be human.“
The Economist
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