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In My Skin
DVD/APPROX. 93 MINS/2002/FRANCE R18+
DVD/APPROX. 93 MINS/2002/FRANCE R18+
8.5
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"It is through my body that I am in the world, that I am connected with others. If I am no longer my body, what am I? Where does this desire come
from to want to see what the body is and if I am 'inside'?"
A young research analyst named Esther (Marina de Van) attends a party one late evening with her best friend Sandrine (Léa Drucker). Throughout
the night she decides to wander off from that party and through a garden in the backyard. Esther accidentally stumbles and then trips over, falling
into a bunch of steel poles and scrap metal, unknowingly injuring her leg. As she begins to brush off the dirt from her torn pants and jacket, Esther
turns back around and proceeds back to the party. It’s not until she has to go to the toilet, when she notices a blood trail on the white carpet.
Esther looks down and finds a huge gash out of her leg and begins to go into a state of shock, but strangely at least not able to feel any pain.
Concerned about her leg and her friends finding out what happened, she tells her friend that she has had enough and is going home to her
boyfriend. Quickly she decides that the wound is far too deep to take care of herself and seeks medical attention from a nearby hospital. As the
young doctor examines Esther’s wound for joint and ligament damage, he seems to be far more concerned that Esther didn’t come to the hospital
anytime sooner, by noticing that the wound happened several hours ago. As the doctor cleans her wound, Esther soon becomes somewhat
fascinated and drawn in by watching the doctor dig out the scrap piece of metal from her leg, before stitching her up. That following morning her
boyfriend Vincent (Laurent Lucas) walks in on Esther undressing her bandage, and instantly becomes concerned and begins to ask her same main
question the doctor did “It’s strange you didn’t feel nothing”, Esther replies “I guess it was shock” then begins to pick the scab off her wound. The
next following days Esther finds herself at every giving chance alone picking her wounds scabs, which soon escalates into slicing, cutting her legs
and arms with any sharp objects that is laying around the house and office. As Sandrine and Vincent soon start to it hard to face the fact that
Esther is doing these bizarre things she does to own herself, they soon start turning a blind eye to her sickness and help her hide what she is
doing from the world around her.
In My Skin is definitely one film that will leave you thinking on my many levels. Why would a person do this to themselves? Why don’t they get
help? What can you possibly get out of cutting yourself up with a knife? No matter what, we will never really understand why people tend to self
mutilate themselves. Honestly… I had a friend who went through the same experience as Marina de Van’s character did in this film, I asked those
questions and many more, and still I could never get a straight answer. Even to this day I believe this is a mental sickness, kind of like
schizophrenia but far more extreme. She never said once that the voices told her to do it, but the fact she just enjoyed the extreme pain which
made whatever that was bothering her at the time go away. She saw so many doctors, shrinks and was on so many different type of medications
to try and stabilize her condition, and still they weren’t able to stop her from hurting herself. Until one day she cut herself so deep and they weren’
t able to stop the bleeding, so she bled to death. And still the questions I asked are still left unanswered, and sometimes to this day it really anger’
s me.
Viewing this movie it really opened my eyes, and not to mention it also scared me. It was like if I was able to take a quick glimpse through her eyes
and into her life before she left this earth. It’s quite shocking and made my skin crawl when watching In My Skin. This film even managed to make
me feel light headed, and so nauseated that at times I had to turn my head in the opposite direction. But that didn’t even matter because the
sound effects alone and hearing the sound of her ripping into her flesh, and deep breathing was enough make me feel sick in the guts. I guess
with what I witnessed her do, came into play and caused me to feel like this. But still it doesn’t hide the fact I can sit down and watch people being
torn apart, eaten alive, decapitated, hacked to death and it doesn’t even faze me one bit. But watching a person take to themselves with a sharp
instrument and hurt themselves like that is just simply horrifying.
I really have to hand it to filmmaker/actress Marina de Van for creating a film like In My Skin, I doubt any other filmmaker especially a male director
could ever create or manage to have such a impact on its audience as much as Marina de Van did. She played a convincing role within this film; she
knew how to capture a person who does this type of thing and most of all gross out her audience. It really takes someone a lot of guts to grab a
knife and ram it into their skin, and not to mention some of the scenes in this film are quite disturbing to view.
In My Skin is a film that those who enjoy watching self body mutilation movies are going to enjoy. And if you are a huge fan of directors David
Cronenberg, Georges Franju and of course Roman Polanski, well then Marina de Van‘s: In My Skin definitely falls into those other well known
filmmaker’s category. In My Skin has now found its way onto DVD (region 4) in Australia, thanks to our official sponsor Siren Visual.
Unfortunately the DVD is bare bones: you only have one In My Skin trailer which is presented on this DVD. It would have been nice to have an
audio commentary by Marina de Van on the DVD, because I personally would of like to know what her exact thoughts were, when she made this
movie.
from to want to see what the body is and if I am 'inside'?"
A young research analyst named Esther (Marina de Van) attends a party one late evening with her best friend Sandrine (Léa Drucker). Throughout
the night she decides to wander off from that party and through a garden in the backyard. Esther accidentally stumbles and then trips over, falling
into a bunch of steel poles and scrap metal, unknowingly injuring her leg. As she begins to brush off the dirt from her torn pants and jacket, Esther
turns back around and proceeds back to the party. It’s not until she has to go to the toilet, when she notices a blood trail on the white carpet.
Esther looks down and finds a huge gash out of her leg and begins to go into a state of shock, but strangely at least not able to feel any pain.
Concerned about her leg and her friends finding out what happened, she tells her friend that she has had enough and is going home to her
boyfriend. Quickly she decides that the wound is far too deep to take care of herself and seeks medical attention from a nearby hospital. As the
young doctor examines Esther’s wound for joint and ligament damage, he seems to be far more concerned that Esther didn’t come to the hospital
anytime sooner, by noticing that the wound happened several hours ago. As the doctor cleans her wound, Esther soon becomes somewhat
fascinated and drawn in by watching the doctor dig out the scrap piece of metal from her leg, before stitching her up. That following morning her
boyfriend Vincent (Laurent Lucas) walks in on Esther undressing her bandage, and instantly becomes concerned and begins to ask her same main
question the doctor did “It’s strange you didn’t feel nothing”, Esther replies “I guess it was shock” then begins to pick the scab off her wound. The
next following days Esther finds herself at every giving chance alone picking her wounds scabs, which soon escalates into slicing, cutting her legs
and arms with any sharp objects that is laying around the house and office. As Sandrine and Vincent soon start to it hard to face the fact that
Esther is doing these bizarre things she does to own herself, they soon start turning a blind eye to her sickness and help her hide what she is
doing from the world around her.
In My Skin is definitely one film that will leave you thinking on my many levels. Why would a person do this to themselves? Why don’t they get
help? What can you possibly get out of cutting yourself up with a knife? No matter what, we will never really understand why people tend to self
mutilate themselves. Honestly… I had a friend who went through the same experience as Marina de Van’s character did in this film, I asked those
questions and many more, and still I could never get a straight answer. Even to this day I believe this is a mental sickness, kind of like
schizophrenia but far more extreme. She never said once that the voices told her to do it, but the fact she just enjoyed the extreme pain which
made whatever that was bothering her at the time go away. She saw so many doctors, shrinks and was on so many different type of medications
to try and stabilize her condition, and still they weren’t able to stop her from hurting herself. Until one day she cut herself so deep and they weren’
t able to stop the bleeding, so she bled to death. And still the questions I asked are still left unanswered, and sometimes to this day it really anger’
s me.
Viewing this movie it really opened my eyes, and not to mention it also scared me. It was like if I was able to take a quick glimpse through her eyes
and into her life before she left this earth. It’s quite shocking and made my skin crawl when watching In My Skin. This film even managed to make
me feel light headed, and so nauseated that at times I had to turn my head in the opposite direction. But that didn’t even matter because the
sound effects alone and hearing the sound of her ripping into her flesh, and deep breathing was enough make me feel sick in the guts. I guess
with what I witnessed her do, came into play and caused me to feel like this. But still it doesn’t hide the fact I can sit down and watch people being
torn apart, eaten alive, decapitated, hacked to death and it doesn’t even faze me one bit. But watching a person take to themselves with a sharp
instrument and hurt themselves like that is just simply horrifying.
I really have to hand it to filmmaker/actress Marina de Van for creating a film like In My Skin, I doubt any other filmmaker especially a male director
could ever create or manage to have such a impact on its audience as much as Marina de Van did. She played a convincing role within this film; she
knew how to capture a person who does this type of thing and most of all gross out her audience. It really takes someone a lot of guts to grab a
knife and ram it into their skin, and not to mention some of the scenes in this film are quite disturbing to view.
In My Skin is a film that those who enjoy watching self body mutilation movies are going to enjoy. And if you are a huge fan of directors David
Cronenberg, Georges Franju and of course Roman Polanski, well then Marina de Van‘s: In My Skin definitely falls into those other well known
filmmaker’s category. In My Skin has now found its way onto DVD (region 4) in Australia, thanks to our official sponsor Siren Visual.
Unfortunately the DVD is bare bones: you only have one In My Skin trailer which is presented on this DVD. It would have been nice to have an
audio commentary by Marina de Van on the DVD, because I personally would of like to know what her exact thoughts were, when she made this
movie.
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