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“The Skin I Live In” Is Unnecessarily Shocking
Dec 18th
“Unnecessarily Shocking”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
The Skin I Live In is the latest movie from Spanish writer and director Pedro Almodovar, and of all the movies that he has made, this is one of them.
The story begins in 2012 in Toledo, Spain, and there will be some flashbacks and dream sequences designed to enlighten and confuse the audience, respectively, whereas the purpose of the whole movie is just to lead up to a whopping shocker at the end.
Antonio Banderas plays Dr. Robert Ledgard, a renowned plastic surgeon who is experimenting with developing artificial skin that is sensitive to gentle touches and yet at the same time is indestructible.
The reason that Robert is obsessed with creating this artificial skin is that years earlier his wife was in an automobile accident in which her skin was horribly burned, and she died as a result of that accident.
So, Robert has a patient locked up in his house, a beautiful young woman named Vera whose whole body is being covered with the artificial skin.
One day Vera cuts herself across her breasts, and Robert saves her and repairs the damage, but Vera says, “If you want me to stop breathing, kill me.”
Robert points out to her that if she had really wanted to kill herself, she would have cut her jugular vein.
Robert uses pig cells to strengthen the artificial skin, which is illegal, and he is ordered to stop his experiments or else he will be reported to the scientific and medical communities.
Of course, he doesn’t, because otherwise there wouldn’t be any movie.
Robert keeps Vera locked up in her room, but he can observe her with all the surveillance cameras he has installed, and we learn more about Vera, Robert’s housekeeper, visitors to Robert’s house, and even about Robert himself.
When Robert is finished, Vera can boast of having the best skin in the world, but apparently Vera has now become attracted to Robert, and she tells him that she wants to live together with him as equals, like everyone else.
However, Robert’s housekeeper warns Robert that he has to kill Vera or Vera will kill herself. She also says that Robert shouldn’t have constructed Vera’s face to resemble the face of his dead wife.
The Skin I Live In is unnecessarily shocking and becomes even more unnecessarily shocking.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
The Tavern Hospitality Group
Dec 12th
The Tavern Hospitality Group is a Denver-based family-owned operation, comprised of Tavern Uptown, Tavern Downtown, Tavern Lowry, Tavern Tech Center, Tavern Wash Park, Tavern Littleton, Cowboy Lounge, and The Soiled Dove Underground. The company was the brainchild of Frank Schultz and his mother and step-father Terry and Al Papay. Their first venture was The Soiled Dove in 1997, forged from an historic LoDo warehouse on the corner of 20th and Market. Originally opened as a dueling piano bar, the Dove featured bands on an occasional basis. Soon, this concept became more popular than the pianos so the location was transformed into a live music format in 2000. The venue’s reputation in the music industry flourished.
The company’s growth and development is based on its Tavern concept. Each Tavern uniquely takes on the flavor and personality of the neighborhood in which it resides. Amenities weaving a common thread through all locations include spacious yet cozy lounges, fireplaces, outdoor patios, numerous HD TVs and high-end architectural features. Vital to the success of the brand are the high standards upheld for the fresh food and friendly service provided to guests.
Locations
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The Tavern Downtown 1949 Market St. Denver, CO 80202 Phone: (303) 299-0100 Fax: (303) 298-9107 Monday-Friday 11am–2am |
The Tavern Uptown 538 E. 17th Ave. Denver, CO 80203 Phone: (303) 830-9210 Fax: (303) 861-3037 Monday – Friday 11am–2am |
The Tavern Lowry 7401 E. 1st Ave. Denver, CO 80230 Phone: (303) 366-0007 fax: (303) 366-3001 Monday – Friday 11am–2am |
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The Tavern Tech Center 5336 DTC Blvd. Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: (303) 221-4660 Fax: (303) 221-4676 Monday – Friday 11am–2am |
The Tavern Wash Park 1066 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80209 Phone: (303) 733-0350 Fax: (303) 733-0364 Monday – Friday 11am–2am |
The Tavern Littleton 2589 West Main Street, Littleton, CO 80120 Phone: (303) 730-7772 Fax: (303) 730-7774 Monday-Friday 11am–2am |
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Cowboy Lounge 1941 Market St. Denver, CO 80202 Phone: (303) 226-1570 Fax: (303) 298-9107 Thursday Night LADIES NIGHT/ |
The Soiled Dove Underground 7401 E. 1st Ave. Denver, CO 80230 Phone: (303) 830-9214 Fax: (303) 366-3001 |
Tavern Hospitality Group Office
538 E 17th Ave.
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 226-1555
Fax: (303) 226-1556
Email: ask@tavernhg.com
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“Take Shelter” Confusion for Confusion’s Sake
Nov 7th
“HOT SHOTS” LOOKS AT A MOVIE BY DAN CULBERSON: Take Shelter is an award-winning, critically acclaimed film that just might leave you wondering what all the awards and acclamation was about. 
Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain star as Curtis and Samantha LaForche, they have a 6-year-old daughter named Hannah, who is deaf, and they all live in a small town in Ohio.
Curtis is a crew chief for a sand-mining company, but then things start happening to him that causes him to worry enough to go see a doctor. He is having bad dreams in which weird things happen to him and make him take action about them afterwards in his waking life.
Then he starts seeing things and hearing things during the day, which causes him to question his sanity, considering that he is 35 years old and his mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia 25 years earlier when she was 30.
And then one day Curtis says, “I’m thinking about cleaning up that storm shelter out back.”
So, without telling Samantha, he gets a home-improvement loan for $7,000, borrows some equipment from work, and then begins expanding the small storm shelter into a larger, fully equipped bunker for him and his family to wait out the apocalypse that he believes is soon coming.
Curtis articulates this as he is afraid that something “not right” might be coming, he promised himself that he would never leave Samantha and Hannah, and he is doing everything he can to make that come true.
So, are the events that Curtis is experiencing and interfering with his life real or imagined? The audience has to decide that for the time being.
When warning sirens go off and the family hides in the storm shelter to avoid the danger, Curtis doesn’t want to open the door after the danger appears to be over, but Samantha tells him that he has to open the door or else nothing will change.
Now, some critics have said that the final scene in the movie explains everything, but even that is left open for interpretation and speculation.
Take Shelter takes every opportunity to include unnecessary details that just add to the confusion, it is a movie that eventually can cause the audience to question their own sanity, but in the end, you can conclude that it is nothing more than confusion for confusion’s sake.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
