I definitely find the final scene with NPH's character especially hard to watch :( And heh I guess that I would have struggled with the ending if I had liked Nick more, but because they were both so awful (admittedly Amy was worse :P ), I kind of took it in stride. It seemed like he had lost interest in Amy when he was cheating and ready to end the marriage, but then finding out that she was a complete sociopath got him hung up on her again? Lol I don't even know
And Under The Skin was a VERY loose adaption of the novel, basically the first part is sort of similar to the film where Isserley is going around Scotland and carefully picking out hitchhikers that won't be missed for some unknown reason. It's then gradually revealed that she's an alien who has been surgically altered to take on human form, she's bringing humans back to her homeworld as their meat is considered a delicacy there. Isserley starts to connect with some of the humans that she picks up though and struggle with what she's doing, so she eventually decides to see what happens to the humans after she hands them over. This is where it gets really horrible. They're kept in some building way underground, they're fattened up a LOT and have their tongues removed, and basically there are not at all subtle parallels with factory farming. There's even some high-up from her homeworld who is protesting the eating of human meat on ethical grounds, and Isserley tries to hide from them that the human beings are capable of speech, because on their homeworld humans are basically considered to be dumb animals who are incapable of communicating.
It's vey different from the film obviously! That seemed to just take the early build-up of the book and make that the entire focus of the film, but with no plot or dialogue to carry it along? Even Scarlet Johnson isn't much like Isserley is described as in the book, she's in constant pain from the form that her body has been altered into, and she is very self-conscious about how ugly she feels around people from her homeworld. The black pool of water wasn't in the books, but I imagine that's meant to represent sucking them over into the other world for processing? It didn't make much sense to me that the guys seemed sooo oblivious when they walked into it though, maybe that was meant as a comment on being that wrapped up in the beauty of Scarlett Johnson's character?
ETA And the book probably doesn't sound that great from my summary heh, but I liked it okay, especially the character (I forget his name now!) who was protesting the eating of human meat. I really liked his scenes with Isserley, I kept hoping that he would find out the truth about humans having their own language, but he never did. It was a secret that they kept from the majority of their species, they believed that humanity were more or less like how we think of sheep, Isserley was one of the very few who got to interact with humans and speak their language, but had to keep that knowledge hidden from everyone else
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And Under The Skin was a VERY loose adaption of the novel, basically the first part is sort of similar to the film where Isserley is going around Scotland and carefully picking out hitchhikers that won't be missed for some unknown reason. It's then gradually revealed that she's an alien who has been surgically altered to take on human form, she's bringing humans back to her homeworld as their meat is considered a delicacy there. Isserley starts to connect with some of the humans that she picks up though and struggle with what she's doing, so she eventually decides to see what happens to the humans after she hands them over. This is where it gets really horrible. They're kept in some building way underground, they're fattened up a LOT and have their tongues removed, and basically there are not at all subtle parallels with factory farming. There's even some high-up from her homeworld who is protesting the eating of human meat on ethical grounds, and Isserley tries to hide from them that the human beings are capable of speech, because on their homeworld humans are basically considered to be dumb animals who are incapable of communicating.
It's vey different from the film obviously! That seemed to just take the early build-up of the book and make that the entire focus of the film, but with no plot or dialogue to carry it along? Even Scarlet Johnson isn't much like Isserley is described as in the book, she's in constant pain from the form that her body has been altered into, and she is very self-conscious about how ugly she feels around people from her homeworld. The black pool of water wasn't in the books, but I imagine that's meant to represent sucking them over into the other world for processing? It didn't make much sense to me that the guys seemed sooo oblivious when they walked into it though, maybe that was meant as a comment on being that wrapped up in the beauty of Scarlett Johnson's character?
ETA And the book probably doesn't sound that great from my summary heh, but I liked it okay, especially the character (I forget his name now!) who was protesting the eating of human meat. I really liked his scenes with Isserley, I kept hoping that he would find out the truth about humans having their own language, but he never did. It was a secret that they kept from the majority of their species, they believed that humanity were more or less like how we think of sheep, Isserley was one of the very few who got to interact with humans and speak their language, but had to keep that knowledge hidden from everyone else