The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is a Spanish Psychological Thriller Drama film directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The cast includes Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, & Jan Cornet, to name a few. You’d have seen Elena in films lượt thích Room In Rome and Wonder Woman. The plot revolves around a mysterious woman who has been kept captive by a brilliant, yet deranged plastic surgeon. Let’s just leave it at that. Here’s the plot và ending of the film The Skin I Live In explained, spoilers ahead.Bạn đang xem: The skin i live in
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Before we begin talking about the story of The Skin I Live In or its ending, the only way the plot can work is if Robert is an absolute psychotic mad-scientist with a bizarre fetish for his wife’s body. I can’t see any other way. So let’s go through the sequence of events in chronological order, here’s an illustration for the same.
The Skin I Live In: Sequence Diagram of the Plot
The Skin I Live In: Plot Explained
Marilia, Robert, and Zeca
Marilia is the mother of two kids, Robert and Zeca – by two different men. Neither of them knows that they are half brothers. Zeca grows up khổng lồ be a drug smuggler & a criminal in general. Robert, on the other hand, grows up khổng lồ become a brilliant plastic surgeon & is an absolute psychotic mad-scientist who is madly in love with his wife, Gal.
Gal
Gal fancies Zeca and runs away with him. Too bad for her, Zeca leaves her burning after a nasty oto accident. Robert tries his best to restore Gal back to her original form và takes precautions to remove all the mirrors from their trang chủ in the meanwhile. Unfortunately, Gal sees her reflection off a window và flips out. She jumps to her death as her daughter, Norma, watches on.
The Skin I Live In: Norma and Vicente, the incident
Norma becomes mentally unstable & is on multiple drugs that keep her psychosis at bay. Years later, thinking that she’s doing much better, Robert takes Norma along lớn a friend’s wedding party.
Vicente, a young chap who works with his mother designing clothes, consumes drugs, và lives a carefree life. He also has the hots for his co-worker, Cristina, who is gay. Popping a pill, Vicente heads off to lớn the same tiệc ngọt Norma happens lớn be.
Initially, Norma and Vicente hit it off, và the two make out in the bushes. But then Norma reacts in fear & begins pushing away Vicente. She starts screaming. Fearing that he would be accused of sexual assault, Vicente tries khổng lồ shut Norma’s mouth with his hands. Further, in fear, she bites his hands & Vicente strikes Norma & knocks her unconscious. High on drugs, and confused by what just transpired, Vicente puts Norma’s clothes back on her and drives away.
Robert’s Anguish
Robert’s Revenge
In the quest for vengeance, Robert locates and kidnaps Vicente. With the help of falsified concent papers, he gets his colleague, Fulgencio, to lớn perform a vaginoplasty on Vicente. Robert keeps Vicente a prisoner and further transforms him into a woman. Meanwhile, Norma’s condition worsens khổng lồ the point where she commits suicide, just lượt thích her mother.
The Skin I Live In: Plot Twist: Vera is born
Years pass, và Robert gives Vicente the face of Gal and decides upon a new name, Vera. While we see Vera resigned to lớn her fate, Vicente is still rooted within và is struggling khổng lồ hold on khổng lồ his identity and sanity. Robert is asked by the medical bureau khổng lồ discontinue his work as it involves transgenetic therapy on humans. Intending to lớn pursue on, Robert terminates all of his house-help, & his mother, Marilia, returns lớn help with Vera. Marilia knows nothing about Vicente, all she sees is a woman who is captive and looks like Gal. She simply can’t trust Vera, but she helps nevertheless.
Zeca never learns
Zeca is now a wanted fugitive & seeks shelter in Robert’s home now that his mother works there. Marilia reluctantly agrees lớn hide him in for a couple of days. Stupid move. Zeca lays his eyes on the live footage of Vera & sees Gal & wants to lớn talk lớn her. Marilia protests, and Zeca responds by tieing và gagging her & placing her in front of the live footage.
He then proceeds to locate Vera. When he does, she tries to escape but is overpowered và assaulted by Zeca. Understanding the situation, Vera tries to lớn play along và convince Zeca to lớn head outdoors, but it doesn’t work. Eventually, Robert shows up & kills Zeca. Marilia watches on wishing that Robert would kill both Zeca and Vera và bring this deranged medical experiment khổng lồ an end.
Vera plans her exit strategy
That night Vera sleeps with Robert & wins his trust. He allows her khổng lồ go shopping with Marilia the next day. Fulgencio later shows up identifying one of the missing people in the papers khổng lồ be Vicente, who they once operated upon. He accuses Robert of illegally performing medical experiments on Vicente. Vera shows up just about now và to further gain the confidence of Robert lies that she has always been a woman and is in the house by her own choice. Vera notices Robert’s gun and Vicente’s picture in the paper. It appears lượt thích her wait is over.
The Skin I Live In: Ending Explained
At night, in the pretext of heading down lớn get some lubricant, Vera takes Robert’s gun & heads up và kills him. She then hides under the bed. As expected, Marilia shows up, and Vera shoots from under the bed. As she falls to the floor, Marilia sees Vera và says, “I knew it” as this corroborates her suspicions about Vera. Vera goes back home and talks to Cristina and proves to lớn her that (s)he is Vicente by quoting a conversation they had in private. Vera then discloses the same to the mother, và the film ends.
The Skin I Live In: Afterthoughts on the Ending
Vicente was careless and high on drugs when he met Norma. Though he’s a flirtatious man, he didn’t intend khổng lồ assault Norma. The punishment he received for this was pretty extreme. Robert planned to lớn convert the guy who attacked his daughter into a woman và then sexually assault him eventually? and in the process of the transformation, he used Gal’s face (the face of the woman who left him for another) và fell in love with the man he was trying to lớn punish? Hmm… well, now that Robert is dead, he probably has some time before his afterlife khổng lồ ponder over his scheme và where things might have gone wrong.
I don’t know if this can be called irony, but now he’s back home with Cristina, who is gay and never wanted lớn be with Vicente, but he’s now the beautiful Vera, và this could be a very very messed up situation. Oh, & Fulgencio will know lớn tell the authorities to lớn look for a woman with Gal’s face, so Vera hasn’t really gotten away.
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