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The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

Common Sense Media Age 18

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Most of the behavior here is cruel and vindictive, and some of the motivation is bitter revenge.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Very intense. A young man is kidnapped and chained to a wall. After a while, he's forced to undergo sex-change surgery and endless plastic surgery to change his appearance. There's one full-on rape scene (with clothes tearing and repeated thrusting motions) and another attempted rape. Several characters are shot and killed, with lots of blood. A woman tries to kill herself; viewers see cuts all over her body. A burn victim kills herself after seeing her reflection in a window.
Sex
A man has sex with his daughter's rapist, whom he has forced into having a sex change. Several scenes of female toplessness and naked bottoms. There's a teen "orgy" in the woods, though nothing is shown other than the movement of bodies from a distance and "sexy" moaning sounds. Oral sex and teens with more than one partner are suggested. Some sex talk.
Language
Language (in Spanish with English subtitles) is strong but not constant; words include "f--k," "s--t," and "c--t."
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
A young man takes too many pills and confesses to being "high" during a party. He boasts at a later period that he has not taken any pills in "a week."
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