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Re: The Skin I live in

#21 Post by AleksanderLoesch » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:40 am

evilzadi wrote:Is this film supposed to be a metaphor then?
I think Almaldovar's life is a metaphor lol!

Can anyone who has seen this film tell me something (without giving anything away!):

Does the film have ANY gore, torture? / implied gore, torture?. If so, what kind?

-I ask as a really close friend wants to see this film -almost- as much as I do. But she can't watch gore on screen due to post-traumatic stress. She loves other Almaldovar films, so we are both hoping to watch it. But it may only be me who can :undecided:

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Re: The Skin I live in

#22 Post by soonforgotten » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:45 am

AleksanderLoesch wrote:
evilzadi wrote:Is this film supposed to be a metaphor then?
I think Almaldovar's life is a metaphor lol!

Can anyone who has seen this film tell me something (without giving anything away!):

Does the film have ANY gore, torture? / implied gore, torture?. If so, what kind?

-I ask as a really close friend wants to see this film -almost- as much as I do. But she can't watch gore on screen due to post-traumatic stress. She loves other Almaldovar films, so we are both hoping to watch it. But it may only be me who can :undecided:
I don't recall anything really disturbing. There's some blood and self-inflicted cuts but nothing too graphic. It's all pretty mild visually.
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Re: The Skin I live in

#23 Post by AleksanderLoesch » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:47 am

soonforgotten wrote:
AleksanderLoesch wrote:
evilzadi wrote:Is this film supposed to be a metaphor then?
I think Almaldovar's life is a metaphor lol!

Can anyone who has seen this film tell me something (without giving anything away!):

Does the film have ANY gore, torture? / implied gore, torture?. If so, what kind?

-I ask as a really close friend wants to see this film -almost- as much as I do. But she can't watch gore on screen due to post-traumatic stress. She loves other Almaldovar films, so we are both hoping to watch it. But it may only be me who can :undecided:
I don't recall anything really. There's some blood and self-inflicted cuts but nothing too graphic. It's all pretty mild visually.
Ah, you mention blood and self-inflicted cuts... That is actually the kind of worst thing.

Do you actually see them "cutting" themselves? or is it the wound afterwards?

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Re: The Skin I live in

#24 Post by soonforgotten » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:49 am

AleksanderLoesch wrote: Ah, you mention blood and self-inflicted cuts... That is actually the kind of worst thing.

Do you actually see them "cutting" themselves? or is it the wound afterwards?
You see it afterwards. I really didn't find it too bad and it's pretty quick. It's just nothing compared to what gets shown in films (and especially Spanish films) these days.
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Re: The Skin I live in

#25 Post by superhero » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:59 am

Didn't someone say it's the human centipede without the gore?
There's p*ying previews on tonight for this?

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Re: The Skin I live in

#26 Post by AleksanderLoesch » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:59 am

soonforgotten wrote:
AleksanderLoesch wrote: Ah, you mention blood and self-inflicted cuts... That is actually the kind of worst thing.

Do you actually see them "cutting" themselves? or is it the wound afterwards?
You see it afterwards. I really didn't find it too bad and it's pretty quick. It's just nothing compared to what gets shown in films (and especially Spanish films) these days.
That should be O.K.

Thank you so much! I haven't found anybody whose seen the film to tell me yet so this is great news :)

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Re: The Skin I live in

#27 Post by superhero » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:26 am

Well talk of the devil, just won 2 tickets to see this on the 25th Thursday at Clapham Picture house 8pm. Anyone very keen on going, as I am seeing something else on that night? Otherwise I will put it on offers board later.

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Re: The Skin I live in

#28 Post by AleksanderLoesch » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:37 am

Ooh. Tempting...

Yesh Pwease :)

lol.

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Re: The Skin I live in

#29 Post by hopeprince » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:47 am

It's the same day as Change Up.
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Re: The Skin I live in

#30 Post by superhero » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:48 am

Tickets gone to AleksanderLoesch o/

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