"You're a violent snowflake!"
-Nic Cage to some biker dude, possibly, right before killing him.

"The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow.

Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.

Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way.…

Some thoughts about Under the Skin:

1) It feels like the key scene is the baby on the beach. The more that I think about it in fact, the entire movie is babies on beaches.

2) There's a horrible sort of irony in the film's narrative, elliptical though it is--alien disguises self as Scarlett Johansson to seduce, trap, and destroy men through their sex drives, alien ends up trapped and destroyed, alone in the woods because all the men it…