YMMV / La piel que habito

• Adaptation Displacement: How many people know the book the movie is based on?
• Awesome Music: The soundtrack composed by Alberto Iglesias is a triumph, especially the main theme.
• Narm:
  • Norma's looks of wide-eyed confusion when Vicente paws at her while they're still both fully dressed and standing up in the garden are cartoony to the point of of hilarity.
  • At a pivotal point, when Fulgencio demands to know what Robert did to Vicente, Vera states her name as "Vera. Vera Cruz." Mexican audiences found this absolutely hilarious and it destroyed the tension of the scene.
  • There were reports of other crowds reacting with laughter and treating the film like a surrealist comedy rather than drama or horror, even at festivals, much to Pedro Almodóvar's surprise.
• Paranoia Fuel: You'll surely be worried about what could a plastic surgeon do to you while you're under anesthesia.
• Tear Jerker: Vicente discovering yoga. Specifically, the TV instructor's assurance that "There's a place where you can take refuge. A place inside you...a place to which no one else has access. A place that no one can destroy." Also the scene where he comes across a picture of himself before his kidnapping, kisses it, and runs his fingers down it.
• The Woobie:
  • From the death of her mother to her sexual assault even if in-universe it's implied he wasn't intending to assault her but that she simply began to have a freakout and he reacted too forcefully in confusion due to being high at Vicente's hands to her own suicide, Norma's life is one traumatic event after another.
  • Vicente's not a stellar person by any means, but his forced sex reassignment is so horrifying to watch that you just want to comfort him. Doesn't help that he's all wide eyes and haunted gazes.

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