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Under the Skin

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Under the Skin	comment	Under the Skin is a Sci-Fi Horror film made in 2013 and directed by Jonathan Glazer. It is a loose adaptation of Michel Faber's novel of the same title. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien who disguises herself as an attractive woman in order to prey on hitchhikers in Scotland.Glazer worked on the film for over a decade; initially a dense, special effects-heavy concept, the final plot was considerably sparser. Most characters were played by non-actors, and many scenes were filmed with hidden cameras. The film is also very economical with its dialogue, instead choosing to let its visuals do the talking, which contributes to its eerie atmosphere.Although it failed to make back its budget, the film received glowing reviews. Its abstract plot was subject to mass analysis, and it has since been deemed one of the best films of its decade.Not to be confused with the PlayStation 2 game of the same name (known as Meiwaku Seijin: Panikku Mēkānote Annoying Alien: Panic Maker in Japan).
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Under the Skin / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Under the Skin / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Justified - we can actually hear the alien learning to speak English during the first few minutes of the movie.
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Under the Skin / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Under the Skin / int_15b09af9	comment	Heel–Face Door-Slam: The alien tries to reform herself and act more human after seducing the disfigured man, but neither of her attempts go well at all - and she ends up dying a lonely death at the hands of the logger - who gets away scott-free. It's implied that she'll end up being replaced with another alien on Earth.
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Under the Skin / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Under the Skin / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Several reviews of the film name Johannson's character as "Laura," presumably from a press pack. She is never named in the film, but is called Laura in the "Editing" featurette of the DVD Bonus Content.
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Under the Skin / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
Under the Skin / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: The alien embarks on this after she seduces the man with the deformed face.
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Under the Skin / int_1e669b8e	type	Humanoid Aliens
Under the Skin / int_1e669b8e	comment	Humanoid Aliens: Her true form has the basic human body type, but with all-black skin and yellow eyes.
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Under the Skin / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Under the Skin / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Throughout the movie, when the alien seduces men and captures them, an eerie soundtrack is heard. When the forest guard attempts to rape her and then kills her, a distorted version of the same theme is used, as if to indicate that the tables have been turned on her.
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Under the Skin / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Under the Skin / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Unknown: the baby left on the beach after its parents drown is ignored by the motorcyclist, and a later radio report indicates it is missing. Its eventual fate is not shown, but it doesn't look good for the poor kid.
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Under the Skin / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Under the Skin / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The logger comes across as friendly and helpful at first, telling the alien about the forest trails. Later, however, he starts to feel her up in the cabin, before trying to rape her after her escape attempt.
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Under the Skin / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Under the Skin / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: The rapist.
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Under the Skin / int_281de7ba	type	Motorcycle on the Coast Road
Under the Skin / int_281de7ba	comment	Motorcycle on the Coast Road: There are several long shots of the alien's male partner zooming through the Scottish countryside on his motorcycle. Road racer Jeremy McWilliams was another non-actor cast in the role because he was able to do this in bad weather.
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Under the Skin / int_2a0c7188	type	Women Are Delicate
Under the Skin / int_2a0c7188	comment	Women Are Delicate: The bus stop man carries the alien across the water.
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Under the Skin / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Under the Skin / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: The beach scene. A baby is left orphaned on a beach after its parents both drown, and everyone ignores it as it's screaming and crying. When one of the aliens returns later that night, it's still screaming as the tide gets worryingly close. A news report the next day mentions that the child is still missing.
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Under the Skin / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Under the Skin / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Many of the cast speak with such thick brogues that even the alien has trouble understanding them (as will many people watching if they're not familiar with the accent).
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Under the Skin / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
Under the Skin / int_328b32	comment	Unequal Pairing: Played with. The man the alien comes to trust and then has sex with is simply a normal man, so is obviously far less dangerous than she is. However, he thinks she is a traumatized / mentally disabled human woman, so he presumably thinks that he's the more powerful one.
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Under the Skin / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Under the Skin / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Lots of scenes of beautiful Scottish highways and woods.
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Under the Skin / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Under the Skin / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: The alien takes the form of a highly attractive women, who uses her looks to lure men into a strange location where they're killed (apparently to eat).
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Under the Skin / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Under the Skin / int_4d1423b9	comment	Become a Real Boy: After her encounter with the disfigured man, the alien starts attempting to act more human and do human things, like eating cake or having sex. Neither of them go well, and given that after this, she runs off into the woods to be alone, one can infer she's given up on becoming more human.
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Under the Skin / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Under the Skin / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: The alien's victims gradually disrobe as they venture further into her void. One of them we see at length is very well equipped.
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Under the Skin / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Under the Skin / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The alien, in the midst of becoming more human, is murdered by an attempted rapist.
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Under the Skin / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Under the Skin / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The men the alien seduces. They get suspended in liquid long enough to puff up, then are popped, with their empty skins still floating around. The decaying, bloated body of the swimmer that we see in the void.
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Under the Skin / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Under the Skin / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends with the image of a dead woman: a mystery girl, implied to be our protagonist's predecessor, at first, and later, the protagonist herself, hinting that she herself will be replaced, just like the first girl was.
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Under the Skin / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Under the Skin / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: The last scene shows snowflakes falling after the alien's death.
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Under the Skin / int_58d31a8b	type	Body Motifs
Under the Skin / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: Skin, as one might infer from the title. It's the only thing left once the alien's victims are consumed and it's also how the alien's true form is revealed, after her false skin is torn open.
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Under the Skin / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Under the Skin / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The film puts a more surreal and ambiguous spin on an already surreal source material. It explains practically nothing.
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Under the Skin / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Under the Skin / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Aliens in Glasgow.
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Under the Skin / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Under the Skin / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In one early scene the alien is driving around Glasgow, and we see from left to right: a shop selling leather, a poster saying SPACE INVADER, an advertisement with the slogan "You. Me. Something Else," and a poster for a performance of Beauty and the Beast. Just after the bus with an advert on the back saying "It's possible."
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Under the Skin / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Under the Skin / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: When the alien sees herself in the mirror, presumably for the first time, after she consumed her third victim.
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Under the Skin / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Under the Skin / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: The oppressive atmosphere and constant Mind Screw make it an unsettling film. Few aspects stand out as horrifying on their own, but there is a David Lynch feeling of dream-like terror to it.
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Under the Skin / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
Under the Skin / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: There is dialogue in the film, but it's definitely not the main focus.
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Under the Skin / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Under the Skin / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Most of the film is seen from the point of view of a female alien who is seducing men in Scotland. Apart from what happens to the men, she allows a couple to drown and then leaves the couple's baby alone on a desolate beach. It's not clear if she even knows what this means, though.
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Under the Skin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Under the Skin / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: Most of the characters are not named and get listed in the credits by their description like "The Female" or "The Bad Man". Exceptions are: The family on the beach, who are named the McClellands, although you have to pay attention to a radio broadcast in the film to catch it. The first victim, Hibs fan Andy, has his own name tattooed on his arm. The character the alien meets at the club is named Andrew. In the novel, the character corresponding to Scarlet Johansson is named Isserley.
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Under the Skin / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Under the Skin / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: The man who takes the alien in after he finds her on the bus has sex with her, and he thinks she is a traumatized/mentally disabled human woman, which would make it debatable whether she could give informed consent. While she seems fine with this, it also doesn't look like she knows what sex even is exactly, pushing him off her after he apparently ejaculates to examine herself. Thus it seems doubtful that she actually knew what was going on. So from either of their perspectives it's problematic. Another interpretation of the scene is that the man is trying to find her vagina, and she is shocked to realize that she doesn't have one. With her comments about loneliness to the deformed man, the situation seems like another failed attempt at experiencing something human like with the cake scene.
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Under the Skin / int_98def616	type	Replicant Snatching
Under the Skin / int_98def616	comment	Replicant Snatching: Early on, we see the alien's trap suck out the innards of a victim, leaving only the skin. Later on in the movie, we see the alien's "human" skin peel off, revealing a distinctly nonhuman body underneath. Put two and two together, and...
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Under the Skin / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Under the Skin / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The alien's "apartment" that sucks the men she picks up through the floor, and puts them through the aforementioned body horror.
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Under the Skin / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Under the Skin / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: At the end of the movie, in the woods the man in the yellow jacket douses the main character with gasoline and sets her on fire, after his attempted rape of her tears off the fake human disguise she has been wearing all this time.
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Under the Skin / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Under the Skin / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The main character has nipples but no visible vagina. Of course, it may just be hidden under her all-black skin. It's hinted that this is why she couldn't have sex with the helpful man, and her natural form lacks nipples - and possibly breasts, for that matter.
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Under the Skin / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Under the Skin / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: To 2001: A Space Odyssey. The soundtrack clearly goes the same brand of eeriness and the beginning of the film references a lot of the imagery with the assembly of the alien's eye being similar to the alignment of Jupiter's moons in the film and the head on shot of the motorcyclist as he speeds through a tunnel with light going past him is very blatantly a reference to the "beyond the infinite" sequence.
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Under the Skin / int_a484ef6c	type	Sensory Abuse
Under the Skin / int_a484ef6c	comment	Sensory Abuse: The soundtrack isn't painful exactly, but the harsh noises are played up, and what little dialogue there is tends to be so quiet as to be virtually inaudible, especially if lots of people are talking at once, emphasizing her lack of connection with humans.
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Under the Skin / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Under the Skin / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The rapist. Especially when you consider that his behavior isn't that of someone attacking his first victim.
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Under the Skin / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Under the Skin / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The possible fate of the man at the nightclub is being trapped in suspended animation beneath the surface of the alien's void until another person releases him. Considering the alien dies in the end, he may very well be there forever.
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Under the Skin / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Under the Skin / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The alien, due to some very bad timing.
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Under the Skin / int_ad34c38a	type	Predatory Prostitute
Under the Skin / int_ad34c38a	comment	Predatory Prostitute: The alien preys on men who fall for her seduction.
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Under the Skin / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Under the Skin / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Though much of the nudity is decidedly unsexy, many in the audience may still be attracted to the sight of the alien getting naked. It helps that she's played by the very good-looking Scarlett Johansson. The film is in fact very often known as "the one in which Scarlett Johansson gets naked", particularly her full-frontal scene.
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Under the Skin / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Under the Skin / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: Several shots go on for a long time, such as the alien looking at her face in a mirror after seducing the disfigured man.
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Under the Skin / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Under the Skin / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: All of the alien's victims get erect penises. Well, they were believing that they would get some "fun time" with the alien (who's played by Scarlett Johansson, mind you), so it's understandable. Given that the film is rated 15 in the UK, how it was possible for the filmmakers to be allowed to show them is a mystery.
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Under the Skin / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Under the Skin / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: In a sadly realistic variant, two parents both drown after they go out into the ocean, fully clothed, one to save a family dog in distress and the other to save the first parent, leaving their young baby alone and defenseless on shore. The father was even insistent enough to try swimming out again after the hiker had saved him already.
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Under the Skin / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
Under the Skin / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: As per the trope's description, she "mimics social conventions by heavy-handedly triggering the desired emotions and behavior in others." She can turn on the charm and sex appeal when she's luring another victim into her van, but otherwise is blank-faced and aloof.
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Under the Skin / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Under the Skin / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: In the novel, the victims' meat is delivered to a farm to be processed and sent to the home planet for the rich to eat as a delicacy. The movie adaptation makes it far more ambiguous, but we do see a red paste sliding down a chute after the victims are killed, reminiscent of processed meat.
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Under the Skin / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Under the Skin / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Just what exactly is going on in the film isn't clear at the best of times.
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Under the Skin / int_c03cc94a	type	Gasoline Dousing
Under the Skin / int_c03cc94a	comment	Gasoline Dousing: At the end of the film, the would-be rapist kills the alien by dousing her with gasoline and burning her alive.
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Under the Skin / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Under the Skin / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The much-anticipated scenes in which the alien is fully naked can (rather surprisingly) come across this way, as there is nothing remotely erotic about the way they are shot. The alien is far more interested in the way her body's anatomy works, giving her examining herself in a full-length mirror a somewhat clinical feeling. Of course, some people will find them sexy anyway, simply because it's Scarlett Johansson. "Scarlett Johannson undressing another woman" loses a lot of its appeal when the other woman is dead or comatose.
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Under the Skin / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
Under the Skin / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: An unusually subtle example. The dead woman that the alien gets her clothes from at the beginning is implied to be the protagonist's predecessor, hinting that after the alien's death, someone will come to replace her, too. One reviewer gave an even more depressing interpretation - the woman at the start is Isserley, the more humane protagonist of the novel, who has now been discarded by the motorcyclist.
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Under the Skin / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup: Is it a sci-fi horror film? An art film? Both?
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Under the Skin / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Under the Skin / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The celebration of eating cake. Well, until the vomiting anyway. Justified as the alien has just started her wondrous exploration into humanity.
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Under the Skin / int_d50e7e13	type	White Void Room
Under the Skin / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: Where the alien takes the dead girl, implied to be her predecessor, and dresses herself in the other's clothes.
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Under the Skin / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Everything about the aliens: the black room and its human processing oily liquid, and their actual physical appearance, being black-skinned humanoids with yellow eyes. When they're not associated with black, they're associated with red, with their dimly red lights. However, this is somewhat subverted, since the protagonist eventually develops a conscience, and only reveals her real form near the end, when she's embraced her humanity.
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Under the Skin / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Applying human moral standards to the aliens is impossible, since it is never entirely clear what the aliens are doing. It seems that they are using humans as food, but this is not shown in the movie. In the novel, the aliens are sending their prey back to their home planet where they are consumed as a delicacy called voddissin. It seems to be implied that they use their victims' skins to disguise themselves as humans, to stealthily implant agents on the planet. The flesh may be used for food, though.
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Under the Skin / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
Under the Skin / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: One of the protagonist's intended victims (the actor really does look like that, but lives a happier life than this character).
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Under the Skin / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Under the Skin / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Seeing Johansson's character in her underwear seems to prevent her victims from noticing (or caring) that they are in the Eldritch Location described below.
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Under the Skin / int_f468d177	type	The Walrus Was Paul
Under the Skin / int_f468d177	comment	The Walrus Was Paul: Suffice to say, the film leaves a lot of things ambiguous, starting with the characters' names and escalating from there. Why are the aliens on Earth? Who was the dead girl at the beginning? What happens to the baby on the beach? What exactly is the alien doing to the men, and where? What is the relationship between the alien and the motorcyclist? Why did her encounter with the man with the deformed face cause her to change? And so on.
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Under the Skin / int_f4aeb714	type	Human Aliens
Under the Skin / int_f4aeb714	comment	Human Aliens: Played straight until the Gainax Ending.
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Under the Skin / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Under the Skin / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Near the end of the movie, the main character is attacked by the logger who tried to molest her in her sleep.
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Under the Skin / int_f9e4739d	type	I Do Not Drink Wine
Under the Skin / int_f9e4739d	comment	I Do Not Drink Wine: The alien tries to eat chocolate cake but spits it out immediately.
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Under the Skin / int_fdfd52d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
Under the Skin / int_fdfd52d9	comment	Gross-Up Close-Up: A variation; many of the behaviors or details that get extreme close-ups are actually ordinary parts of everyday life that most people don't bother to think about, but become unsettling because of the close attention paid to them.
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Under the Skin / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The alien seems to have a change of heart after seducing the disfigured man and lets him go. Unfortunately for him, the motorcyclist still ends up catching and very likely killing him.
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