7.6
Billy Elliot
2000
Skin (2019)
February 8, 201920mEN
6.6
135 votes
Overview
In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
Director
Guy NattivWriters
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English
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**Between Violence and Fantasy: The Brutal Allegory of Skin** Some films make you look away. Skin (2018), Guy Nattiv's Oscar-winning short, makes you keep watching even when you want to-need to-turn your head. It presents a world so charged, so extreme, so grotesquely cruel that it might feel fictional. And yet, deep down, you know it's real. That's what makes it so terrifying. At just 20 minutes, Skin compresses an entire cycle of hate into a tightly wound parable. It begins with a disturbingly ordinary scene: a white, working-class family laughing in a grocery store parking lot. Their…
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