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The Reflecting Skin review

Posted : 16 years, 10 months ago on 4 July 2007 10:25

The movie did not impress me with its story. The nature scenes and the acting of the young Jeremy Cooper was what did impress me. Actually from what I saw I was almost convinced that all characters in the movie except the three boys the movie starts with are crazy or something. As one other reviewer wrote โ€œIn The Reflecting Skin, nobody behaves like a normal person would, and the viewer is left as a patron at a freak show.โ€

The sheriff for example โ€“ I felt the desire to kick his โ€ฆ..you know what for the way he spoke to people, including Seth ( the leading character) .

It was an entertaining movie nevertheless โ€“ especially the first scene with the exploding frog. There are some disturbing scenes โ€“ like a father who commits a suicide in front of his nine years old son โ€“ or an English Lady who is acting as weird as it can dreaming of her dead husband.



As I mentioned the brilliant cinematography was probably the best asset of this movie. I watched it at home, but am sure that on a cinema screen the sunsetโ€™s scenes or the nature one would look absolutely amazing.

Reflecting Skin is not the best movie I have seen, but I guess some scenes will be stuck in my mind for a while. After all being characterized as Coming out of age movie โ€“ it does a great job in the genre if you look at it from that perspective.


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