Under the Skin
What.
It's a gorgeous film that Jonathon Glazer has created. Shots of city streets and countrysides, all slick with recent rain or the impending storm, crosses before Scarlett Johansson's The Female, a stone-faced and determined predator that takes her time to find lone prey and sneak them back to her apartment building.
The film takes its time, her means of capturing normally involving directions and giving someone a lift. She only shows emotions with her words, but otherwise her blank gaze covers the area in the hopes of finding a lone soul. The way her character unfolds over the course of the events is a unique way to take things, and takes the movie in a direction I had not been expecting. Then again, the whole movie is something I had not been expecting (apart from seeing clips of the goo sinking).
The ending (without spoilers) is sudden and pretty dark, and left me at odds. I think it was the right move to end the movie with, though with how the second half plays out, it is a conflicting end nonetheless.
The music is chilling and ominous, kicking in at the right times and really setting the right pace to what's coming.
But the visuals. The visuals! The imagery in the movie is exceptional, the twisting roads as a motorcycle barrels down it, the creaking trees of a cold forest and its mossy floor, the interesting Scotland villages and cities... but by far the most interesting is when it gets experimental after she enters the black void with someone.
I loved it. I'm making 2018 about watching all of the greats I've missed, and this is by far an amazing start to that.