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In Her Skin

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In Her Skin	comment	In Her Skin is a 2009 Australian film detailing the true story of the murder of 15-year old Rachel Barber. When Rachel, an aspiring dancer, doesn't come home one night, her parents are determined to find her, but the police show little interest in the case and insist that she ran away. It turns out that Caroline Robertson, the family's former babysitter, had crippling self-esteem issues and became obsessed with Rachel, believing she had a perfect life. As Caroline's mental state deteriorates, she begins planning to kill Rachel and assume her identity.Ruth Bradley and Kate Bell play Caroline and Rachel, respectively, Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto play Rachel's parents, and Sam Neill plays Caroline's father.
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In Her Skin / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
In Her Skin / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: Rachel is lured to her death due to her desire to get enough money to buy a pair of expensive dance shoes.
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In Her Skin / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
In Her Skin / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: The film uses John Butler's song "Caroline" as this. The song was written before the film was made, but the lyrics are highly applicable to Caroline's state of mind.
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In Her Skin / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
In Her Skin / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Caroline becomes completely obsessed with Rachel, who seems to have everything she doesn't.
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In Her Skin / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
In Her Skin / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Caroline has crippling self-esteem problems and is emotionally unbalanced, with the walls of her room filled with messages about how she hates herself. Her emotional distress leads her to murder Rachel in the hope of assuming her identity.
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In Her Skin / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
In Her Skin / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: One of the worst examples of this. The police don't seem to care about Rachel's disappearance, barely giving it any attention and turning a blind eye to any evidence that there was foul play involved. They even mock Rachel's parents and blame them for overreacting. Making it even worse is that the police in real life really were this unhelpful.
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In Her Skin / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
In Her Skin / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: It's strongly implied that part of Caroline's obsession with Rachel is as much due to (probably unadmitted) sexual attraction as it is to jealousy, as she thinks and speaks of Rachel in eroticized terms. Caroline Robertson is a lesbian in life.
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In Her Skin / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
In Her Skin / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: While becoming obsessed with Rachel, we see Caroline run up to her and ask her to be her best friend, while Rachel looks coldly at her and shakes her head. Given Caroline's mental state, it's unlikely that this even happened, it's strongly implied to be her warped Imagine Spot. In real life, Caroline did ask Rachel to be her best friend, but Rachel's response was more bemused than hostile.
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In Her Skin / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
In Her Skin / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Caroline's supervisor at work is the closest thing she has to a friend, not that it keeps her from snapping.
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In Her Skin / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
In Her Skin / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Caroline contacts Rachel with an offer to interview her for a "psychiatric study", telling Rachel that she can't tell anyone about this. Rachel doesn't question this at all, despite it being fairly suspicious.
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In Her Skin / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
In Her Skin / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Caroline is a depraved murderer, but it's because she's snapped from her self-loathing and complete social isolation.
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In Her Skin / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
In Her Skin / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The vast majority of the film follows Caroline.
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In Her Skin / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
In Her Skin / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: It should be obvious to anyone that Caroline is in serious need of help (and Caroline herself says so), but no one catches on in time. Her father is aware that she has depression, but treats her problems as an annoyance and does little to help until she goes off the deep end.
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In Her Skin / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
In Her Skin / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Caroline has a moment of this when she looks at herself and Rachel's dead body in the mirror, and it finally dawns on her just how serious and depraved her actions are.
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In Her Skin / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
In Her Skin / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Caroline's parents have gone through a bad divorce, with her mother openly saying she hates her, while her father is barely aware of her problems and seems annoyed at having to give her any attention. As a result, Caroline becomes fixated on Rachel, who has a loving family in comparison.
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In Her Skin / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
In Her Skin / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Caroline feels unwanted by her parents and socially isolated, having endured bullying for years, and longs to be the popular and outgoing Rachel, who seems to have been well-cared for all her life.
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In Her Skin / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
In Her Skin / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: This certainly seems to have been the case for Caroline's parents. Caroline was a ticking time bomb throughout her adolescence. All the signs were there that she either kill herself, kill someone else, or both, but her mother was too weak-willed and her father too disengaged to intervene before the inevitable happened.
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In Her Skin / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
In Her Skin / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Caroline is consumed with self-loathing, neglected by her parents, and has been bullied and isolated her entire life, ultimately going off the deep end and murdering Rachel in the belief that she could assume the girl's identity.
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In Her Skin / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
In Her Skin / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: We follow Rachel's family for the first twenty minutes, before the narrative switches to Caroline's perspective.
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In Her Skin / int_e2b576a1	type	I Just Want to Be You
In Her Skin / int_e2b576a1	comment	I Just Want to Be You: The motive for the murder. The homely, socially awkward Caroline Robertson, as the title implies, wants nothing more than to be the beautiful, popular, and desirable Rachel Barber. Caroline's obsession with Rachel eventually leads to murder.
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In Her Skin / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
In Her Skin / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: It's strongly implied but not stated up front that Caroline's fixation on Rachel is due to underlying sexual attraction as much as it is due to jealous resentment. While the film leaves this ambiguous, in life Caroline is a lesbian.
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In Her Skin / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
In Her Skin / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The police investigating Rachel's disappearance are portrayed as incompetent, callous, and uncaring, not even bothering to investigate properly, and blowing off Rachel's parents and mocking their concern for their daughter.
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In Her Skin / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
In Her Skin / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Caroline tries to give one to Rachel, as she tells her to close her eyes and think of something happy before killing her, which she expects to be quick. She then learns the hard way that strangling someone isn't as easy as it appears.
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In Her Skin / int_f89bca72	type	PsychopathicWomanchild
In Her Skin / int_f89bca72	comment	Psychopathic Womanchild: Caroline seems very emotionally underdeveloped for a 19-year old. One example is when she's seen holding a teddy bear while following the news about Rachel's disappearance.
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