Under The Skin - Scarlett Johansson (2014)

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Without giving away anything about this film, I thought it was great and if you're a guy and like Scarlett Johansson and weird movies, then you might love it.

This film seems to divide people quite a lot, they either think it's rubbish and didn't get it, or they quite like it. I thought to tell you all because one reviewer said the film seemed a bit autistic in the way it fixated and looked at things. ...That rang a bell...And that's maybe why I identified with it! It's important that a film speaks to me and is somewhere on my level. Truth is, I also really liked Scarlett in it a lot and sorta fell in love with her so that was the main draw. I don't know if it would have had the same impact with anyone else playing the character, but there you go.

I actually liked the movie quite a bit as scifi/horror. Ignoring Scarlett Johansen's homicidal intent for a moment, I'd say the movie was the perfect metaphor for Asperger's - an alien visitor to earth, who despite learning something about empathy (choosing not to absorb the deformed man) and how to react emotionally to situations (such as her obvious fear when the logger tried to rape her), she was still an alien.

I saw this following a lot of good reviews from SF sites. I quite enjoyed it and I can see where people are getting the "Aspie" angle from.

I thought the movie looked and sounded great and I loved the bits of wierdness (i.e. the seductions). Some scenes were very slow paced though and it came across as a bit pretentious.

I watched this last night, and the more I think about it, the more I realise I liked it!

I thought it was beautifully made; visually rich, subtly underplayed performances, quite a unique experience and a fine example of Cinema as an art form as opposed to a Popcorn-munching, crowd-pleasing money-making Movie.

I was about to post a new topic, but searched and found this thread instead - I was going to ask if anyone else had picked up on the ASD "vibe", or association, and it appears so! Whether it was intentional or not, it struck a chord with me.

Way too many Movies these days are remakes, rehashed concepts, unoriginal ideas and unimaginatively made, this was an intelligently structured refreshing change to the norm

....and you get to see Scarlett Johansson's bum. Awesome

I thought it was a fantastic movie and I agree with what Kraichgauer said about it being a metaphor-y for autism; I definitely thought that while watching it. The movie was enigmatic, but in a good way. You really had to think about the meaning of it in order to understand it. Scarlett was really great (and soooo beautiful) in it and it was visually appealing (that part with the fog!). I liked how it wasn't just horror, but actual creepiness. I think things are much scarier when it's creepy. That part with the guy's skin sort of exploding off of him scared the crap out of me.

the guy at the end who incinerated her was a human monster.