Under the skin Review

The greatest strength of cinema has, and will always be, ambiguity. A flaw that films suffer from is the desperate need to tell us everything, they fail to realise that quite often the audience can create just as much as the filmmakers can, Under the skin is a film that every viewer will have a completely different reaction to and completely different theories on. It almost an impossible film to try and relay to someone and its less about plot and more about ideas and fascinating visuals. Scarlet Johansson is brilliant in the lead role, she’s almost effortless in this obscure mercurial performance, the film is set in Scotland and Johansson manages to be both completely natural as well as standing out. I think the film Is a social comment on seductive women and demonically sexual men, Johansson uses sex to lure these men to their deaths, yet as the film progresses the idea of her own sexual being seems almost as alien as she is. The final scene is phenomenal, and there hasn’t been a film that has created images this traumatising and haunting in years. It’s not an easy film to like, but it’s incredibly easy to admire.   (Low 5 Stars)