The Man Who Sold His Skin2021

Now this is a tough one to talk about; not because of its delicat dark themes, but i found myself loving the idea of the film rather than the film itself. The Man who Sold his Skin, treats powerful subjects but lacks that sauce to be truly evocative, and i think that's due to mainly two reasons, one, it deals with too many themes two, it gets satirical, and i don't think its aware of that the film wanted to talk abt wat too many things it ultimately left room for none, and some elements even clash with each other, but no worries they are easy to pin point as they litteraly spit it out for you, and i'll follow in the movie's footsteps and name them out for you 1-Refuge crisis (syria in perticular) 2-Freedom of mouvment 3-Objectification 4-Turning Suffering into commodity 5-Human rights and it's realtion to Art 6-Political oppression 7-Identity 8-Love in times of instability as you see there is a bunch of them and few smaller ones mixed int bunch, despite each one of these being an extremely interesting idea, and i can easily find myslef writting essays about all of them, the issue remains that are just ideas thrown outthere, i'll be operating outside the environment that the movie establishd, and for the sake of the film i'll take it as gateway to these subjects, an invitation for the watcher to dive in by his own and explore them by himself. isn't that what cinéma does? it shines a light where it has gotten a bit dark, and it reminds the audiance to look there. And to not help its case, some elements feel just caricatural, the tatooist that is also a world renowed artist and everything he touches becomes gold, sounds like something out of cartoon network. and everything that deals with art and news in general, well, feels too general, borderline hollow, almots like a parody. and i wouldn't mind any of this being the case, as the mere act of making a film about the suffering of the refuges is hypocritical itslef to what the film tries to establish and i think if they played the satire card it could have made the pill much easier to swallow, instead it takes itself too seriously, and even if this was the intentional route, approaching such delicat themes with a satirical lens is like walking barefoot on glass... yeah they kinda cornered themselves. and the final nail in the coffin was that cheap indian drama final twist, that objectively speaking had no higher purpose than laughable shock value. the cinematography was fine though, aesthetically at least. ps: the whole film i was thinking "this monica bellucci look-alike does a pretty good job altough she is a bit older" she was Monica Bellucci