Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Listening To: Under the Skin (2013)


Like a lot of fellow cinephiles, I loved Under the Skin. It was original, strange, and had a mesmerizing performance by Scarlett Johansson. This film has a lot going for it, and my favorite thing about it, hands down, is the score by Mica Levi.

A film with science-fiction elements needs an interesting score. Too many sci-fi films resort to standard sounding music, but an unsettling and unconventional film like Under the Skin needs an equally unsettling and unconventional score. I was absolutely hooked. It gave me the creeps, in a good way. It has a simple theme, both screechy and dreamlike, repeated, everything else stripped away, and it's effective as hell. In a film with almost no dialogue, the score complements the visuals to create a real masterpiece.

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