The Skin I Live In (2011)
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
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The Skin I Live in is a very disturbing movie about plastic surgery, and if you are easily disturbed I suggest you know what you're in for. This Spanish horror movie stars Antonio Banderas as an obsessed plastic surgeon called Robert Ledgard that looks for the way to make the perfect skin and who gives a subtly eerie performance that visualizes the insanity of obsession, breaking thick boundaries to get there. Unexpectedly, the film then entirely develops into a horrific nightmare that gets more frightening as it goes along, with Robert Ledgard going to extreme lengths to create the skin as perfect as possible. There have been a lot of shocking scenes in this film that have stuck in my memory for a few days now and have troubled my mind hauntingly, and that effect on a two hour event gets my dearest respect for the courage it has to not play it safe and keep away from disturbing it's audience. The soundtrack, editing and cinematography then top it all off, creating an extremely disturbing horror movie that is repulsing and at the same time frighteningly fascinating.
I am a huge fan of Pedro Almodovar, but "The Skin I Live In" from 2011 is not my favorite film of his; in fact, it's my least favorite.I was not expecting a horror film from this wonderful director. Unfortunately I hate horror films.Antonio Banderas is a doctor and scientist who keeps a beautiful young female patient (Elena Anaya) in his home while he invents a new type of human skin that won't burn, as his wife was burned in a car crash. Flashbacks show that he has suffered more than one tragedy, and tells the story of what led to this woman being in his home. It's so gross. I'm sorry to leave a review like this that no one will agree with, but I was extremely disappointed in this movie. I stuck with it until the end, but I wanted to turn it off.
This movie is unbelievable sick. But it pulls you into the story so deep that all that sickness, instead of being shocking, seems like natural flow of things... This might easily be the best Almodovar so far...9/10
I came across this movie on a "Movies That Are So Clever They'll Have You Thinking For Days" and this one is going to have me thinking for days. The only word I can fathom after seeing it is just...WOW.This is a mind eff of a movie if I've ever seen one. The beginning starts off decent, I found myself thinking 'ok this is decent so far but predictable. So he's created some test tube/petri dish woman. Just some scientist gone mad because he wife died from tragic inferno stress.' Then the story diverts to a young man in the woods with the daughter. Okay, still can we get back to the main plot? I don't care about this stupid kid.AND then the twist. WOW. Did I take a long, hot shower after? Yes. Do I feel mentally violated? Yes. Are there any words to describe the feeling once that twist hit? No. Jaw-dropping, gut-wrenching, just wow...Somehow you feel as though you're living in the walls of his house. Watching this crazy story unfold, helpless to do anything yet still watching. Mind = blown. This is definitely in my top five 'best movies of all time' list. I love movies that make me think, and this will definitely make the mind juices flow.