女神殿

flay



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–verb (used with object) 
1. to strip off the skin 
or 
outer covering of. 

2. to criticize or scold with scathing severity.
3. to deprive or strip of money or property. 


 　
Cronenberg has said he's not interested in crime stories as themselves. "I was watching 'Miami Vice' the other night," he told Adam Nayman of Toronto's Eye Weekly, "and I realized I'm not interested in the mechanics of the mob, but criminality and people who live in a state of perpetual [trans]gression -- that is interesting to me." 

And to me as well. What the director and writer do here is not unfold a plot, but flay the [skin] from a hidden world. Their story puts their characters to a test: 

They can be true to their job descriptions within a hermetically [sealed] world where everyone shares the same values and expectations, and where outsiders are by definition the prey. But what happens when their [cocoon] is broached? Do they still [possess] fugitive feelings instilled by a long-forgotten babushka? And what if they do?

broach
鑽孔開啟(桶等), 開飲用口
babushka
頭巾


scalp schlep 
tusk
fang gnash gnaw
clench cling grate grapple
peg 
prosthesis prosthetic
shin
knuckle
Scalp