The Skin i Live in is a new Pedro Almodóvar movie thats themes mainly focus on cynicism, revenge, identity, family and most importantly the desires of one man. Fans of Pedro will be treated with another great movie with drama, and newcomers can treat themselves with a horror movie that succeeds at terrifying and shocking the viewers without any gore or shocking monsters.
The movie focuses on Robert Ledgard (Played by none other than Antonio Banderas!) as a wealthy Surgeon whom the audience learns has a past full of misery and bad luck, but he wants to fix the errors and make a better future for the world and him. You learn quickly about what tragic accident happened to his wife that took her life, which is her body getting burned so badly, but now Robert has created the perfect skin that cannot be burned whatsoever, and that is thru the help of a woman named Vera (Elena Anaya).
You learn Vera is the perfect guinea pig and she has a very special condition, which forces her to live in a secured room and she cant leave the house, as the movie goes on the dark past of Robert and his family get unraveled, and like the more mainstream known movie the Prestige by Christopher Nolan, this movie receives a shocking twist of events, that just begs the audience to re-watch the movie and just see the brilliance of it all.
I will gladly recommend this movie to everyone. Elena Anayas performance as Vera deserves respect and praises as her role is incredibly unique, Id say she plays two roles, the Vera in the start and Vera after the special conditions of her skin are revealed, this truly is about her story and the skin she lives in. Antonio Banderas evil Doctor comes off as both sympathetic and cynical, this man has lost his mind but he wants to make things right, in his own sick sense.
While this movie is horror, thriller, suspense, you dont have to worried if youre a weak stomached person, this is really about the twisted nature of mankind, not some gore slasher movie with a Zombie hacking people into pieces or a Doctor creating a Human Centipede, no, this is about a man getting his desires and the unraveling of his accomplishment.
