Horrified Viewers Flee Antonio Banderas' New Flick Due to Extreme Sex, Violent Scenes
By Jo Piazza, Fox News
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Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest thriller, "The Skin I Live In," had filmgoers fleeing the theater Thursday night at its gala premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, due to some aggressively violent and disturbing content.
The film, which stars Antonio Banderas and budding actress Spanish actress Elena Anaya, focuses on a mad but brilliant surgeon (Banderas) who kidnaps a man who raped his daughter.
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Banderas then gives the rapist a sex change and transplants his deceased daughter's face onto his body.
Good grief.
Even worse. he's trying to act again.
That's just we need - a cool horror film that says being transgendered against your will is a suitable punishment for rape ::).
Quote from: Padma on May 24, 2011, 09:32:46 AM
That's just we need - a cool horror film that says being transgendered against your will is a suitable punishment for rape ::).
hmmmm
The idea has merit.
They get sentanced to permanant medicaly induced GID. Pretty hellish. >:-)
Quote from: Padma on May 24, 2011, 09:32:46 AM
That's just we need - a cool horror film that says being transgendered against your will is a suitable punishment for rape ::).
Why not? They used to use estrogen to "cure" gay people.
Yeah, pretty much classic Almodóvar, sigh...
when stuff like this comes up....i wonder if the actor was completely oblivious to it being stupid/offensive/just plain bad idea or if they knew and just needed the money. after 4 Shreks....he does this?
holy crap even forgetting it's effect on the trans community he puts his dead daughters face on the guy and has sex with the guy...with his daughters' face on it?! nononononononononono. *shakes head at movie industry*
Wtf?
Interesting trailer. :laugh:
The Skin I Live In Trailer 2011 HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSwlqrBYWE#ws)
Ahmm sick comes to mind.
Revenge a rape with a rape, in raping the image of your daughter. No doesn't compute.
Cindy
Ever heard of an eye for an eye?
That is another one I won't waste my money on!
Well, finally something knocks "The Human Centipede" off the top spot in my list of Really Bad Ideas For Films.
Quote from: tekla on May 26, 2011, 04:07:26 AM
Ever heard of an eye for an eye?
I think reconstructing the eye is against Sharia law.
Petty, Tekla :laugh:
But seriously
What do movies like this do? There was a discussion with Sam Peckinpah why he got so vivid in the violence in the 'Wild Bunch' Peckinpah suggested that the degree
of violence would put people off being violent. Yep. That worked. So now we have movies that explain how to torture. I'm leaving the current one alone i haven't see it. I have to admit I will not. Where is the thought? Where is the creativity? Where is the art? Art may be an impossible thing to define , but the day rape is art we have lost a part of humanity that took a long time to work through.
I must be getting old.
Cindy
If you dehumanise people they get worse, not better.
Disagreeing with the theme or content of a film is fair enough but it's not ok to print a spoiler without warning! >:(
I'm necroing this thread because I recently saw this movie, and the article is way off. SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) The guy doesn't rape his daughter. They both get stoned and it starts out consensual but the girl starts to freak out in the middle and bites him really hard so he slaps her to make her let go and she ends up knocked out, then he puts her shirt back on and leaves. Antonio Banderas's character thinks it's rape.
2) It's his wife's face, not his daughter's.
3) There's only one rape scene and it's not Antonio Banderas. Antonio Banderas shoots the rapist. There is a lot of sex and nudity though.
4) Banderas doesn't perform the vaginoplasty, he lies to a group of surgeons to perform it (which is still pretty unrealistic but w/e). There's also a scene where he teaches "her" to dilate.
5) The violence is EXTREMELY exaggerated in the article.
Good points here Trista. But movies have been changed in the past when it bombs at the premiere. Also given the source of the story, FOX, who are 'Fair and balanced'? I think we all should be wary of any FOX sources cited in this forum in the future. I do not see any published reviews that resembles the story as told by FOX.
Joelene
My friend tried to get me to watch that and Human centipede. Had to pass.
Quote from: Cindy James on May 26, 2011, 05:28:18 AM
I must be getting old.
Cindy
If you dehumanise people they get worse, not better.
I'd like to blame it on me getting old as well; but I'd hope if I were half my age I'd still have no desire to watch something like this.
Madison
Quote from: Joelene9 on July 29, 2012, 08:36:22 PM
Good points here Trista. But movies have been changed in the past when it bombs at the premiere.
Maybe the violence was turned down but otherwise that's a bit much to alter.
Anyways, I liked it okay, so.....
Hmm in all honesty the hype surrounding this movie seems exaggerated most of it will stem from the surgery horror stuff it's never nice to see a body in that state it's why TV shows that feature it give warnings for the squeamish and when it involves the genitals even more so. it's probably no worse than any other revenge horror movie and some of the fiction on the numerous TG story sites (infact the plot sounds exactly like they ripped it off one of them)
Most of the reaction will be from the simple fact that it's pretty much every non TG males worst nightmare waking up without their penis. ;D
It's actually based on Thierry Jonquet's 'Tarantula', a book he wrote a long time ago. He passed away some years ago, in 2005 IIRC. Almodovar's films have always had a sexual nature to them, and when I heard he was optioning the story I just couldn't imagine how twisted this could end up being. I watched the movie a couple months ago, and I wasn't impressed. He probably had a fascination with the story, but even the violent scenes and all that were not really that much, at least compared to other films. I was probably more shocked when I watched 'Irreversible', when Monica Bellucci gets abused for like 7 or 8 minutes. THAT was disturbing.
Just watched this and it seemed really pointless and meandering. I managed to mostly put the pieces together by the end but I spent a good chunk of the movie really lost and confused about the timeline and so forth. It felt like a movie by someone who fetishizes forced transition.
I couldn't help but see massive parallels between this movie and an American one called "Victim" which is instant streaming on Netflix right now. The parallels were so clear that I can't help but wonder if one movie inspired the other or if they were both based loosely on the same thing.
I saw this on Starz last night and really didn't like it. First off, weird movie... is weird. Really strange lighting, feel, and cinematography. Also the jumping back-n-forth in time throughout the movie makes it hard to follow.
It really appeared to me to be more of a fetish fantasy tale than anything else. The whole part dealing with the forced SRS as revenge for his daughter's death seemed shoe-horned in towards the end. One thing that was complete applesauce was how the "patient" near immediately after the forced SRS starts speaking perfectly 100% like a genetic female.
::)
This really came off like some dirty old man's sick fantasy that you'd read on one of those trashy CD websites. Anywho, I give it two thumbs down.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F25.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m6ewrjJLqs1ro8ysbo1_500.jpg&hash=3b3d5e16e2f22f7a1b97016e83fee40dd8fab498)
I don't think I'd ever want to watch this - although I am curious about what its about...
Quote from: Snowpaw on July 29, 2012, 09:21:17 PM
My friend tried to get me to watch that and Human centipede. Had to pass.
I heard about Human Centipede - ewww... its safe to say I am NEVER going to watch it...
I agree that it sucked. Victim is a very similar movie but much better. Not for the feint of heart though.