The Skin I Live In (2011)
Figures
Objects & symbols
- The visual motif of surveillance cameras and monitors within Dr. Ledgard's home, El Cigarral.
Form & technique
- The film's narrative structure and aesthetic, combining elements of high family drama with graphic body horror. → The Cinematic Chimera
Tropes
- Dr. Ledgard's development of transgenesis and the creation of Vera's new, synthetic skin.
- Vera's surgically constructed body and Robert's simultaneous repulsion and desire for it. → The Abject Aesthetic
- Vicente's forced transformation into Vera.
- Almodóvar's cinematic adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's novel *Mygale* (Tarantula).
- Dr. Ledgard's project to recreate his dead wife, Gal, in the form of Vera.
- The relationship of control and confinement between Robert Ledgard and his creation, Vera, within the isolated El Cigarral estate.
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