Under the skin is desire, desire is weakness, and if there is weakness, it becomes the target of hunting.

Freddy 2021-11-29 08:01:21



The movie "Under the Skin" tells the story of how an alien woman turns from a hunter into a hunted one. The cause of this transformation of the alien girl is that she has human emotions and desires.

To prove this point, we need to describe this transformation process a little bit. Alien women must wear human skins to make simple contact with humans. The purpose of contact is to hunt humans, and hunting humans is to obtain the nourishment for survival. At the beginning, she regarded humans as prey. Although she tempted men with her hue, she never actively flirted with the tempted man. People who can be led to the death lodge by her have a strong desire for her body. People, those who didn't show this desire to her, or had other things to do, weren't her hunting objects. Moreover, after each successful hunt, her face is expressionless, which also proves that she has no humanity at all; in addition, she is also very indifferent to the behavior of the savior that can cause the most ethical and emotional changes in people. She is still merciless when such a human starts, which seems to be proof that she is not human.

Until one day, she obtained a rose with blood, and after being stained with human blood, humanity began to grow under her skin. She began to observe human beings carefully, and the colorful world of "color is empty" for her before began to become dazzling and colorful. Her eyes became more beautiful, her lips became better, and the compliments she gave to her prey began to "smile". After the hunt was successful, she did not forget to apply lipstick, indicating that her compliments to humans began to develop. Emotional response. However, her human growth was monitored by the mirror behind the door of her death hut. She was severely warned by the motorcycle man (should be her boss) One scene should be conceivable), this not only did not make her "restricted from the precipice", but accelerated the growth of her humanity. In the scene of dealing with ugly men with facial deformities (the ugly men did not dare to think of her, he was not her prey in the past, this arrangement just shows the growth of her humanity), she began to flirt with the ugly men, She uses her skin to actively arouse her prey's lust. After successfully hunting the ugly man, she suddenly observed everything in the mirror. Her growth of human nature seemed to be beyond the punishment of the "serious warning". At this time, she saw the flies trapped behind the glass, and she had the most human beings. Important emotion: compassion. She let go of the ugly man. Of course, all of this could not escape the motorcycle man's surveillance mirror, so she began to flee.

She didn’t dare to drive anymore, and she didn’t want to hunt humans anymore. She began to think about how to live on the earth. She tried to feed her hunger with the food of humans on the earth, but she couldn’t swallow it. There are rescuers she saw before), is safe, and began to accept the help of earthlings, trying to communicate with humans, but after unable to enjoy the joy of cloud and rain with a kind-hearted man, she could no longer live in his house, so she had to be alone Walk in the forest. However, with humanity, she has never thought that human beings still have a bad side. Finally, she also became the target of human "hunting".

The basic need of human beings is to live a group life, with relatives and friends. However, her human needs cannot be met, and she cannot return to her previous group. She has a feeling of indifference like a human being. In other words, the desire to interact with humans instead of hunting them has become her fatal weakness; moreover, when the forest man asked her if she was alone, she told the truth, completely exposing her pitiful situation, unlike humans. Knowing to camouflage, use a skin to cover up your weaknesses, it is easy for her beauty to cause the forest man's evil intentions. When she was invaded by the forest man and forced to take off the human skin, she was completely weak.

Therefore, we can say that human beings are full of desires under their skins. As long as this desire is expressed, it becomes a weakness. Once this weakness is used by hunters, it is fatal. For humans, the skin is a fig leaf of desire and a weapon of self-defense. If the skin is removed, humans will also become weak.

The sad ending of the alien woman in a human skin seems to be able to cause us to think as follows:

(1) Only "human nature" cannot survive in this world. The "human nature" here certainly refers to the "good" aspect. For the alien girl, she only understands the good side of human beings, and the growth of humanity under her skin is limited to this. However, she does not know that some of the most basic human needs of humanity are often irrelevant to good or evil, or that are not subject to moral judgment, such as the need for human safety. In the sequence of human values, the value of security always seems to be high. As long as security needs to be threatened, other actions to achieve security goals, whether it is good or evil, are of no importance. Therefore, when the alien female reveals the true face of a different kind, she will undoubtedly die. Because the experience of human beings in terms of security is that the degree of threat from the same kind is far less than that of the heterogeneous, therefore, based on the need for security, human beings will inevitably "party the same against the different", and the elimination of heterogeneous aliens is an inevitable outcome. For mankind, if there is only "good" humanity, but no or no understanding of "evil" humanity, based on the principle of humanity security of "party as the same against the different", it is also difficult for him to survive in this world, at least his survival will be very difficult. Bar.
(2) If the film is further expanded, the alien woman escapes the hunt of the forest man, she continues to deal with humans, and she continues to improve her understanding of human nature. The film should also show the following proposition in a deeper way: the more she understands people , The more she will be afraid of people. The thinking left to us is that human beings are really not a cute animal. If you only have kindness and don’t do evil, or if you only understand good humanity, but don’t possess or even understand bad humanity, then the more you understand "people" ", the more you are afraid of "people", at least you will hate "people". This may be the true meaning of the motto that Mrs. Roland left to the world before she died: "The more people I see, the more I will be Like dogs". (Text/Slate Planting Flowers 2015-04-01)

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  • Rylan 2021-11-29 08:01:21

    I divided it four times and finally watched it~~~ Even if the goddess’s three points are revealed, I can’t harden this film at all~~~

  • Shyanne 2022-04-23 07:01:54

    Good and evil, insignificance and loneliness under the skin. The unity of existentialism and dialectics.

Under the Skin quotes

  • The Deformed Man: This isn't Tesco's, is it?

    Female: No.

  • Female: Do you want to look at me?