Facing the romantic and suave but cold-blooded and cruel Robert, Vera, this silent and beautiful experimental living mouse, behaved like a slave cringing, but his eyes were full of determination. She is his prey, as pitiful and helpless as a small antelope captured by a leopard. In terms of body and appearance, he changed everything about her. He completely controlled her freedom, confiscated her original identity, and tried to change her spiritual world in various ways at all costs. She shouldn’t have been tortured like this—even if she was guilty, such punishment would violate the laws of nature and violate the natural moral bottom line (as Robert’s superiors warned him, he used genetically modified technology to transplant skin, at least offense The bottom line of bioethics). No one can recognize her anymore. She is a slave in the true sense... But she knows that, like slaves in ancient Greek and Roman society, the only way to gain freedom is to endure humiliation and try to win the favor of the master. When she took the initiative to dedicate her life, Robert didn't want to get her right away... He seemed to have a more complicated struggle inside.
This is a metamorphic classical tragedy that coexists with hot and cold...Every time link is very closely connected. Each character has his tragedy story and hot feelings, but there is also a cold-blooded side that is almost abnormal, just like The old servant Marilia was as calm as she cleaned the scene where her son was shot. Perhaps, when a character's survival instinct surpasses his emotions, he really has the upper hand. Perhaps after understanding this, Vera took advantage of Robert's fatal love for his wife and daughter, who was a good husband and father, and made him less wary of her.
As always, after Almodovar performed the darkest side of humanity vividly, at the end of the play, he put on an ellipsis that is warm, loving, full of possibilities, full of light and hope...
As always, there is a transgender story in Almodovar's movie, but this time, he is not here to make soy sauce...^^
View more about The Skin I Live In reviews
