Under the Skin story
Under the Skin is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Jonathan Glazer with a screenplay by Glazer and Walter Campbell. The film is loosely based on the 2000 novel by Michel Faber. It stars Scarlett Johansson as an otherworldly woman who preys on men in Scotland. The film premiered at Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2013. It was released in the UK on 14 March 2014 and the United States on 4 April 2014.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | while not made explicitly known, reviewers believe Scarlett played an alien who impersonated a human woman, perhaps to learn about us (the novel is more clear o this matter) |
| femme fatale | major | Scarlett played a supernatural man-eater |
| infatuation | major | a number of men became instantanously besotted by the mysterious bombshell of a woman that Scarlett Johansen portrayed |
| loneliness | major | all of the men Scarlett picked up were unpartnered and alone; some of them expressed loneliness when interviewed; a brief conversation in the forrest touched on solitude as well |
| promiscuity | major | the mysterious woman picked up a number of men who were easily seduced, and so eager for sex that they walked heedlessly into some sort of watery limbo |
| what men want | major | the mysterious woman interviewd a variety of men as she seduced them |
| alien abduction | minor | the submerged victims may have been abducted by aliens, reviewers believe |
| alien point of view | minor | after the abortive sex scene, the mysterious woman was befuddled by human anatomy |
| coping with being disfigured | minor | the mysterious woman discusse a disfigured man's condition |
| treatment of migrants | minor | The woman interviewed a variety of foreign men, and it had been suggested that the film is about immigration in some way. |