A film rather symptomatic of the times. Whilst it was inevitable almost all ratings would be either 1,2,9 or 10, it is surprising that there are so many higher scores.
Even allowing for it being a time when people can revel in spending three months sat in a house, watching people sat in a house, the fact that it can stimulate enough people to give it 9/10 is staggering. I made it through to end easily enough, but is hard work.
There are 15 minute stretches with little or any dialogue and the scenes are often standalone and a confusing mess put together in an incoherent way. You can't help get the feeling that there are parts of scenes put in, on the spur of the moment, without any thought behind them. The scene with the disfigured guy went nowhere, as did each of the motor cyclists. Take them out of the film and it is not any different.
It is odd to see those praising the film, claiming that you need to watch it in a way that you do not watch anything else and to not look for a plot, or answers, or coherence. Why? They are pretty crucial factors to challenge the intellect of a viewer rather than exploding cars and pointless fighting. Unfortunately Under The Skin achieves the difficult by being even more drab than those.
Even allowing for it being a time when people can revel in spending three months sat in a house, watching people sat in a house, the fact that it can stimulate enough people to give it 9/10 is staggering. I made it through to end easily enough, but is hard work.
There are 15 minute stretches with little or any dialogue and the scenes are often standalone and a confusing mess put together in an incoherent way. You can't help get the feeling that there are parts of scenes put in, on the spur of the moment, without any thought behind them. The scene with the disfigured guy went nowhere, as did each of the motor cyclists. Take them out of the film and it is not any different.
It is odd to see those praising the film, claiming that you need to watch it in a way that you do not watch anything else and to not look for a plot, or answers, or coherence. Why? They are pretty crucial factors to challenge the intellect of a viewer rather than exploding cars and pointless fighting. Unfortunately Under The Skin achieves the difficult by being even more drab than those.