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The Skin I Live In (2011)
★ 7.5 · 4,596 ratings on TMDB
The things the love of a madman can do...
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
The emergence reading
The Skin I Live In keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceES
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6genderadult bodies can be fully reprogrammed to a different gender via transgenesis (technology · personal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
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