Review of Skin

Skin (I) (2018)
9/10
Sometimes the Academy pick the right film
6 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
In Skin, Gai Nattiv continues his tradition he began with his short "Strangers" of writing and making films where the weak turn the tables on the vile bully. Too often in reality the mouthy bully wins. Life mirrors the WWE all too often. We need fantasy where poor shmucks who want to go about our business in peace are hassled by these vermin. We need therapeutic stories like Skin so we can get through the day.

Some reviewers seem to actually feel a twinge of sympathy for the father who, with his moron buddies, stomp a shopper who is buying a toy for his own son. There are two acts of justice that will bring joy to the viewer. The first is how the friends of the assaulted man retaliate. That leads to the final act of justice that the way the father has raised his son leads to his own doom. I loved the ending. While I wouldn't laugh, I don't weep for a racist gun lover receiving Biblical justice this way.
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