Review of the film ‘Skeleton girls. A kidnapped society’ (2025)
This film is advertised as a ‘Punk Thriller’. But if you jump to the data sheet at the end, you will find the better choice I come up with to describe its genre: Satire. This film is the work of an artisan: it is produced, written, directed and edited by Richard Eames. His style is all over the writing, direction and edition – and his ideology too. The film uses several schematic shots to describe situations. The opening of the film describes a world in trouble, ridden with several problems, including war and global warming. For a moment, it seems that the story is happening in a distopia – but then, the film gets started and the spectators realize that this is not a dystopic future but just our present, only described in a satiric way. Big corporations have all of the power. Hate groups attack immigrants. Big media journalists are aligned with the money. Aspiring journalists will lie all the way. The story has a clear political intention: anti-immigran...
