Mysterious Skin
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- Jaline
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Anyone seen this film? It disturbed me and made me feel a bit sick to my stomach after watching it...but it was great. One of the best indie films shown this year.
The actors and actresses are all great too...the projects they've been in before are quite different to this one.
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"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil - who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, "Mysterious Skin" explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons (involving sexual abuse)."
- spongebob0
Waiting for the DVD to come.
- Jaline0
planning on buying it?
- whatever0
I love greg araki so I'm partial to this aesthetic. But yeah it definitely hits you emotionally raw. How identity gets constructed and our ability to construct our own escapes from potentially crippling experience as well as the late eighties early nineties experience that araki does so well. I loved the soundtrack but the images were tough as hell to stomach, sick joke.
I read the book before I saw the movie and that was quite good too, more back story and more of the main characters sexual escapades. Scott Heim wrote it.
anways, yeah...good stuff if you're into that sort of thing.
- Jaline0
"How identity gets constructed and our ability to construct our own escapes from potentially crippling experience as well as the late eighties early nineties experience that araki does so well. I loved the soundtrack but the images were tough as hell to stomach, sick joke"
nicely put. I loved the way he got the 80s and 90s too.
- ********0
nothing I love more than a movie about sexual abuse
slashes wrists
- whatever0
sexual abuse is just part of it...the tragedies of adolescence and realization are more intense in this movie. It's not really one giant build to a molesting scene but that shit is pretty fucked up...elizabeth shue is great as the mom too...
- Jaline0
Yes. And Elizabeth Shue is great, I agree. I didn't realize who she was at first, but after I looked it up it was obvious. Probably b/c I'm younger than most ppl here, but every other NTer will recognize her. I also think that the two main actors are wonderful.