'Under the Skin' is an eerily strange sci-fi movie about an alien who preys on unsuspecting men in Scotland. Johansson is an odd choice to play an alien, but some of the scenes that strike me as the weirdest are the ones where the film crew have literally picked on real men walking about and got Johansson to drive along side them in her van and hit on them. What a shock that must've given them. Most of them look partly terrified and partly aroused.
The music is good, and the ending is sad, but the whole idea is a bit blurred. And we get shot after shot of Johansson naked or taking her clothes off, luring the hapless men into a large black pit of goo.
Still, it's quite a good idea for a movie. But absolutely bizarre to see Scarlett traipsing round windy, gloomy Edinburgh.
That sounds really good. Have you seen the new 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' with Keanu Reeves? He is very good at playing cold, inhuman parts. It is a brilliant and chilling film which really brings home the idea that humans are destroying the Earth.
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