Under the Skin (2013)

  This is a deeply weird film and definitely not for everyone.  Parts of it are stunning but there's a lot of boring in between.  This was also assigned for "Feminism in Sci-Fi" and while it does qualify as science fiction, I have objections to it being designated feminist.  Just because your main character is a woman doesn't mean you have a feminist film.

An unnamed woman (Scarlett Johansson) trawls the streets of Scotland night after night.  She pretends to need directions in order to get men to talk to her and find out if they have any attachments.  Single men who live alone are offered a ride, which quickly becomes a flirtation and offer to come home with the woman.  Once in her house, the men are stripped and sunk into the floor where they are absorbed for fuel.  The alien woman then resumes her hunting.  One night, she picks up a man with elephantiasis (Adam Pearson) and goes through the usual routine, only to be struck with compassion for the first time ever.  She sets him free and runs, but is unable to truly assimilate into this complex and frightening world.

This is basically ScarJo playing a serial killer, and I am totally on board with that.  As I was watching I thought "Okay, is this movie interrogating male privilege by showing that none of them have any inborn fear of being prey?  Is it challenging the cult of beauty by having someone who looks like ScarJo be cold and empty inside with any perceived virtues projected onto her by the men she picks up?  Are any of these men actually actors or did the director just tell her 'Drive around and see how many dudes will get in a car with you'?" and so on.  Then her crisis of conscience happened and I was profoundly disappointed.  From that point, she becomes another Little Girl Lost trope, following the first good Samaritan she finds like an obedient puppy.  The ending felt more and more inevitable as it approached and depressed me even further.

So I cannot in good conscience describe this film as anything beyond "interesting."  Yes, Johansson does get completely naked.  No, you can't really see anything so there aren't even any prurient reasons to watch this film.  Skip it.