It's an adaptation of the novel by Michel Faber that bears the same name. Launched in 2013, the film is directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson. It's a science fiction story, with a hint of terror, which in a few words can be defined as a "rare" movie. There are not many explanations of what happens (not much happens, really) but it leaves room for deep reflections on human nature. The first scene shows what seems to represent a planet, or a spaceship, and a voice is heard that seems to be learning letters, then sounds, and finally words. After showing the title of the movie, Scarlett Johanson appears removing the clothes of a corpse (was the girl really dead?) to wear it.

Johansson is an alien, disguised as a human, who begins to hunt single men whom she seduces and then captures them, but where does she enclose them? in another dimension? inside herself? in a ship, in another planet? does she feed on them? None of this is explained, not even why does she hunt them? what did she come to our planet for? is it an invasion, an experiment? how are they introduced into human bodies? We know that she's not the only one (we see a motorcyclist who visits her frequently, who is also an alien) but we don't know if there are many more. In one scene we see the body of one of the unfortunate prey that is literally absorbed by something and we only see his skin floating in a kind of liquid mass, empty of organs or bones. Is that how they get the human skin that they then wear? The plot is quite slow and the film is full of silences and sequences without much ambient noise, so at times it may seem boring. But if you pay attention to the background of the scenes, some interesting things can be detached.

Despite being a predator, as time passes and she begins to interact with other people and observe human behavior, something changes inside of her. Some women who go to a party, invite her; a man gives him a rose at a traffic light; little by little, when she sees the people in the street and after a crucial event in the film, she abandons her hunt and she seems a little confused with her... emotions? In the first part of the film, we see her indolent before the death of a woman who dies drowned; but in the second part we see her see herself, contemplate her body, we even see her trying to eat a chocolate cake, almost having sex with a man she doesn't hurt, and we even see her dreaming, do the aliens dream? does dreaming represent a purely human activity? why the change? is she becoming human? has she begun to value something present in our human existence, palpable through the skin she wears?

One detail that could have overlooked many is that at the beginning of the film, she enters a store and buys clothes, including a fur coat: it's a skin (the coat) on another skin (the human) to protect its true being. In the last part, the loss of these two skins reflects their exposure, their stripping, the revelation of who she is.

And then, to make the message deeper, this alien ex-hunter of men, ends up being persecuted by a lascivious man who wants to rape her. In the struggle, he tears her skin and flees in terror, only to return a moment later and burn her to death. She can't defend herself, ends up feeling so human that she feels offended, weak, and just before dying, contemplates the face of the skin she wore with an expression of... sadness? regret? compassion? the hunter ends up being hunted mercilessly for its prey, whose human nature had begun to... share? to understand? To envy? To imitate? To feel like own? This female, who came from another planet, learned about humanity and when she tried to be human, she ended up being better than ourselves, who offered her a cruel bonfire as her final resting place.

The surreal scenes and serious nudes, free of any erotic or pornographic content, combined with the handling of the psychological and emotional evolution of the main character, make the movie savable, despite having little action and a lot of silence. It's true that it tells almost nothing, but the little it tells raises important philosophical questions: what makes us human? My score for this movie is 6/10 points.