Well, I decided to view this film based on the cast. And the cast was indeed good. The subject matter was quite familiar to me as someone who has worked professionally with the mentally ill. The portrayal of the main character's meltdown as a passing phase was either naive or just plain uninformed. The lack of sympathetic characters bugged me even more. Life can be rough, I will admit, but usually you can find one sympathetic soul somewhere, even if that person is wearing a white coat next to an ambulance. Certainly it is more likely that someone like the main character would have gotten to the people in the white coats in England, where she could have access to universal health care. Anyway, I suppose this could pass as a chick flick for adolescent girls who like wearing black all the time and dwell on their own special brand of angst. I would have liked to have missed this one in retrospect.
Review of Under the Skin
