"Under The Skin" a short review.

Contains spoiler! (and nudity...)

Well, well, well. Very dark, very disturbing movie. Almost no dialogue.  Scarlet is exceptionally credible again even if I'm not sure what the story is about. Unsexy very frank sex scenes. Violence bouts at unexpected moments. But a physicality in the description of working class Glasgow which I liked a lot even if I was painfully reminded how difficult Scottish accent can be for an outsider. After all this rain and snow and darkness, I feel cold suddenly... Still want to visit Glasgow though.

Stills from the movie.

Glasgow.

Anatomy of a sex scene

In the countryside

The end

The last image evokes a reference of course.

Optimism, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the meanness of the world

Recently, I've been filled with a renewed sense of optimism, for no reason at all, just "natural as the weather in this moody sky today" as sang Joni Mitchell about melancholy. I was wondering: should I worry? Didn't need to. This fragile feeling of lightness has been drowned by "the news". Ukraine, Gaza, day after day more horrors piling up. Not that I've been personally affected, no one I know has been killed or blown to bits in the recent events. It's just that I almost feel in my bones the pain and despair of all those people, like waves of negative energy travelling through space. I am not a Jedi, not even a very powerless one but it makes me think of Obi-Wan Kenobi experiencing the destruction of the planet Alderaan by the DeathStar.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."


On Earth, again and again.