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The Skin I Live In (2011)

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The Skin I Live In (2011)

Overview

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Negative
Trans: Negative

Viewer Rating
7.5

Overview

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Prime Video logoPrime Video
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Detailed Bias Analysis

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Center

Primary

The film's central exploration of the profound violation of bodily autonomy, consent, and identity through forced gender transformation aligns with progressive critiques of power and individual rights, leading to a left-leaning rating.

The movie utilizes traditional casting, consistent with its setting and the director's typical approach, without explicit DEI-driven character changes. However, the narrative critically examines the actions of a male protagonist whose abuse of power and control leads to profound violations of identity, portraying these traditional male characteristics in a distinctly negative light.

Secondary

The film depicts a cisgender man being forcibly gender-transitioned as a form of extreme revenge and torture. This transformation is presented as a horrific violation, leading to profound suffering and loss of identity for the protagonist. The narrative uses gender change as a central instrument of dehumanization and imprisonment, resulting in a problematic portrayal.

The film portrays a man forcibly transformed into a woman through non-consensual surgery as an act of revenge and control. This depiction frames gender transition as a tool of degradation and trauma, rather than an affirming aspect of identity. While the character eventually reclaims agency, her transsexual identity originates from a profound violation of bodily autonomy, contributing to a net negative portrayal.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film adapts a novel where a male character undergoes a forced gender transformation within the story. This plot point is faithfully depicted, not a re-gendering of a character from the source material for the adaptation itself.

The film "The Skin I Live In" is an adaptation of the novel "Mygale" by Thierry Jonquet. All major characters, as depicted in the source material and portrayed in the film, maintain a consistent racial identity, primarily white. There are no instances where a character canonically established as one race is portrayed as a different race.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.6
The Movie Database logo
7.5

Critic Ratings

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8.1
Metacritic logo
7.0

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