The Skin I Live In

Saw this Spanish film last nite--The Skin I Live In.  It was wild in a Frankensteinish sorta way.  Frankenstein is my fav book, so I got into this.  It's something that can ignite conversation after, but I don't wanna give away the plot...just watch it and be surprised.  I'd like to read the book Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet--because it's based on that book, but twisted a bit.  Then perhaps I can make a comparison between it and Frankenstein.

Antonio Banderes plays the plastic surgeon in The Skin I Live In, and does a wonderful job.  You can get a little confused, because it goes from present to past, and some of the characters look alike, so you're not exactly sure who is who--and is it her, only younger, or who?  I wasn't surprised by a certain outcome, though still enthralled, but there were gasps in the audience!  It's spellbinding! 

It's labeled as horror, but I don't view it that way...it's not bloody/gory (which I don't care for), but more an intellectual thriller.  I dig that it explores dysfunction on both sides of the track...so-to-speak.  I can understand why some of these characters do what they do, because of their dark or tragic pasts.  It leads the viewer to question What is right or wrong? and Are their actions justified?