Under the Skin: Character analysis, 'the female' Under the Skin explores many themes such as gender, identity, morality and sexuality. Even though this film is a science fiction film all of these themes are, and continue to remain relevant to today's society. Although there a quite a few characters in this film, the main way in which these themes are present is through the main character-the female. Jonathan Glazer creates this character in a way that not only portrays the story line, but also the message that he is trying to get across. It could be argued that the way in which Jonathan Glazer presents the female at the start is very different, if not unrecognizable from how she is presented towards the end of the film. At the beginning she is presented as a predictor, which could either come from Glazer's opinion of how woman are, or as a way playing on societies viewpoint of how woman are. In the earlier scenes Glazer's uses mise-en scene and Scarl...