When a brilliant yet disfigured Chinese scholarship student is shunned by her classmates at a prestigious New Zealand university, she decides to use her science studies in a new and terrifying way to achieve the popularity she desperately craves.
＊ Content warning: This film contains scenes that some viewers may find distressing or uncomfortable.
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Eyes Without a Face and The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011). Both films, though The Skin I Live In is warped, tell the story of someone desperate to restore a damaged face through another person's skin. Wei, the protagonist of Grafted, is just as desperate as those in the other movies. Her motivations are multilayered: the success of the surgery would fulfill her late father's wishes and also help her overcome the discrimination and alienation she faces as a foreigner in New Zealand. The challenges Wei faces at her New Zealand university are similar to those depicted in teen dramas. Her cousin Angela and her clique, the "mean girls" of the school, ridicule and isolate her, and a perfect skin transplant is the way to rise above. But, like its predecessors, Grafted warns that skin is merely a shell—and that obsession with it carries terrifying consequences. (MOON Seok)
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