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, và Jan Cornet, to name a few. You’d have seen Elena in films like Room In Rome and Wonder Woman. The plot revolves around a mysterious woman who has been kept captive sầu by a brilliant, yet deranged plastic surgeon. Let’s just leave it at that. Here’s the plot and ending of the film The Skin I Live sầu In explained, spoilers ahead.
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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 toàn thân. 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 sầu In: Sequence Diagram of the Plot
The Skin I Live sầu In: Plot Explained
Marilia, Robert, & Zeca
Marilia is the mother of two kids, Robert & 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 hvà, grows up to lớn become a brilliant plastic surgeon & is an absolute psychotic mad-scientist who is madly in love sầu with his wife, Gal.
Gal
Gal fancies Zeca và runs away with hlặng. Too bad for her, Zeca leaves her burning after a nasty oto accident. Robert tries his best to restore Gal bachồng lớn her original khung và takes precautions khổng lồ remove sầu all the mirrors from their home in the meanwhile. Unfortunately, Gal sees her reflection off a window & flips out. She jumps lớn her death as her daughter, Norma, watches on.
The Skin I Live sầu In: Norma & Vicente, the incident
Norma becomes mentally unstable và is on multiple drugs that keep her psychosis at bay. Years later, thinking that she’s doing much better, Robert takes Norma along khổng lồ a friend’s wedding buổi tiệc ngọt.
Vicente, a young chap who works with his mother designing clothes, consumes drugs, & lives a caremiễn phí life. He also has the hots for his co-worker, Cristimãng cầu, who is gay. Popping a pill, Vicente heads off to the same các buổi party Norma happens to be.
Initially, Norma và 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 lớn shut Norma’s mouth with his hands. Further, in fear, she bites his hands và Vicente strikes Norma và knocks her unconscious. High on drugs, và confused by what just transpired, Vicente puts Norma’s clothes bachồng on her và drives away.
Robert’s Anguish
Robert goes to the garden looking for his daughter and notices someone on a xe đạp driving away in a hurry. He sees Norma’s shoes và sweater that she threw willingly and assumes she’s been assaulted. To confirm his fears, he finds her lying in the bushes unconscious. Norma wakes up, confusing her father to lớn be her assailant. She is admitted lớn a mental health facility where she grows worse by the day, unable to be around men.
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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, lớn perkhung a vaginoplasty on Vicente. Robert keeps Vicente a prisoner and further transforms hyên inkhổng lồ a woman. Meanwhile, Norma’s condition worsens to the point where she commits suicide, just lượt thích her mother.
The Skin I Live sầu In: Plot Twist: Vera is born
Years pass, & Robert gives Vicente the face of Gal & decides upon a new name, Vera. While we see Vera resigned lớn her fate, Vicente is still rooted within & is struggling khổng lồ hold on lớn his identity và sanity. Robert is asked by the medical bureau to discontinue his work as it involves transgenetic therapy on humans. Intending to lớn pursue on, Robert terminates all of his house-help, và his mother, Marilia, returns to lớn help with Vera. Marilia knows nothing about Vicente, all she sees is a woman who is captive sầu và looks lượt thích Gal. She simply can’t trust Vera, but she helps nevertheless.
Zeca never learns
Zeca is now a wanted fugitive sầu & seeks shelter in Robert’s trang chính now that his mother works there. Marilia reluctantly agrees to lớn hide him in for a couple of days. Stupid move sầu. Zeca lays his eyes on the live sầu footage of Vera và sees Gal and wants to talk to lớn her. Marilia protests, & Zeca responds by tieing and gagging her and placing her in front of the live footage.
He then proceeds khổng lồ locate Vera. When he does, she tries lớn escape but is overpowered and assaulted by Zeca. Understanding the situation, Vera tries to play along & convince Zeca to lớn head outdoors, but it doesn’t work. Eventually, Robert shows up và kills Zeca. Marilia watches on wishing that Robert would kill both Zeca and Vera and bring this deranged medical experiment to an end.
Vera plans her exit strategy
That night Vera sleeps with Robert and wins his trust. He allows her to go shopping with Marilia the next day. Fulgencio later shows up identifying one of the missing people in the papers to lớn be Vicente, who they once operated upon. He accuses Robert of illegally performing medical experiments on Vicente. Vera shows up just about now and lớn further gain the confidence of Robert lies that she has always been a woman và is in the house by her own choice. Vera notices Robert’s gun và Vicente’s picture in the paper. It appears like her wait is over.
The Skin I Live sầu In: Ending Explained
At night, in the pretext of heading down to get some lubricant, Vera takes Robert’s gun and heads up & kills hyên ổn. She then hides under the bed. As expected, Marilia shows up, và Vera shoots from under the bed. As she falls lớn the floor, Marilia sees Vera and says, “I knew it” as this corroborates her suspicions about Vera. Vera goes bachồng trang chính and talks to Cristina and proves khổng lồ her that (s)he is Vicente by quoting a conversation they had in private. Vera then discloses the same khổng lồ the mother, & the film ends.
The Skin I Live In: Afterthoughts on the Ending
Vicente was careless và high on drugs when he met Norma. Though he’s a flirtatious man, he didn’t intend to lớn assault Norma. The punishment he received for this was pretty extreme. Robert planned khổng lồ convert the guy who attacked his daughter into lớn a woman và then sexually assault hyên ổn 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 punish? Hmm… well, now that Robert is dead, he probably has some time before his afterlife to lớn ponder over his scheme and where things might have sầu gone wrong.
I don’t know if this can be called irony, but now he’s bachồng home with Cristina, who is gay and never wanted to be with Vicente, but he’s now the beautiful Vera, and this could be a very very messed up situation. Oh, & Fulgencio will know to tell the authorities to lớn look for a woman with Gal’s face, so Vera hasn’t really gotten away.
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