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Mysterious Skin
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Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on the same little league baseball team in a small Kansas town. One day, after a game, Brian blacks out after getting caught in a rainstorm, and five hours later he finds himself sitting in his basement with his nose bleeding and no memory of what happened to him. Over the years, the event - particularly the missing five hours - weigh heavily on his mind, and he becomes convinced that he was kidnapped by space aliens. Teenaged Brian (now played by Brady Corbet) becomes friends with Avalyn Friesen (Mary Lynn Rajskub), a woman who claims to have been abducted by aliens on several occasions, and she urges him to look to his dreams for patterns that might suggest what happened to him. Meanwhile, during the same summer, Neil developed a powerful crush on their little league coach (Bill Sage), who appeared to have also taken a shine to Neil. Neil's mother (Elisabeth Shue), seeing nothing wrong with their friendship, let's the coach look after Neil while she's off on one of her many dates, and before long Neil begins sexually experimenting with the older man. Neil's introduction to sex inspires him to become a hustler when he grows into his teens, and after burning his bridges in his hometown, Neil (now played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his close friend Wendy (Michelle Trachtenberg) move to New York, where he continues to cruise for a living but under significantly more risky circumstances. One day, Neil is contacted by Brian, who after seeing one of their team photos from their days in little league suspects he might have some clues as to what happened to him in 1981. Mysterious Skin was based on the novel by Scott Heim, and marked the first time Gregg Araki made a film that did not originate with one of his own screenplays.
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- Aspect Ratio : Unknown
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 ounces
- Item model number : STDV2600BR
- Director : Gregg Araki
- Media Format : Widescreen, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 39 minutes
- Release date : March 18, 2014
- Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Lynn Rajskub
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Strand Home Video
- ASIN : B00HQVB0Q4
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,575 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2 in LGBT (Movies & TV)
- #755 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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The "tagline" (I think that means the line that appeared on many of the original posters) is "One can't remember...and the other can't forget." Not many have pointed out that in a sense, Neil (Gordon-Levitt) is just as stuck back there in the past as Brian (Corbet) is. Neil knew he was gay before "Coach" picked him out, and, in fact, thought of their relationship as a "love affair," and the feeling he had for Coach as "love." When he starts hustling, he tries to pick men who are middle-aged (like Coach), a bit chunky (like Coach), and whom he can trust, as he trusted Coach. He has NO romance or love in his life, and no sex, except insofar as he gets sex from his johns (which considering that they do the paying, is a fair amount!). So while Brian (Corbet) has blocked the (one night stand--with Neil, the thing lasted all summer) out of his mind, substituted an alien abduction, and feels no sexual attraction for anyone, Neil's life is, in spite of its adventurousness, a certail sense of accomplishment, and, eventully, brutality--just as stuck as Brian's is. So while Araki shw us the widely-veering away from eachother lives of the two sexually abused children, it's clear that that, in a sense, the abuse has stopped the emotional development of both.
Their coming together, at the end, with Neil explaning to Brian what happened to him that night (which he has by now partially guessed), is a kind of a miracle, and we are left with a feeling of hope. Neil realizes what a destructive force Coach was, not only for Brian, but for him as well, and Brian accepts the reality of what happened to him, and (especially in the movie) seems to feel a real warmth for Neil.
I tried for months to get my transgender friend to watch this movie, but as soon as I told him what it was about, he said, "No. I don't want to see it." He slowly chanaged his mind, and we finally did watch it together. He never laughed (not even when Neil is getting blown under the table while annuncing a local baseball game), and said Neil didn't do anything for him (considering our similarities in taste in other similar matters, I'm not quite sure I don't take this with a grain of salt). What impressed him most about the movie, aside from its exquisite direction and acting, was that "neither of the two eight year old actors--or perhaps even younger--would have to know ANYTHING about what the movie as about." That is absolutely true. (Of course, they may have learned about it from older friends; I don't know),. But watch it carefully. With seemless editing, what seems to be a violation, and what seems to be a seduction, of two small boys, never involves either boy directly ("Here we go." But Coach's face moves toward the camera, not the 8-year-old Neil). Compare this to, for instance "The Innocents," in which Miles has to kiss his governess full on the mouth, recite a morbid and suggestive poem, and says some fairly nasty thing to her.
We never see any real sex; we never see an improper kiss (unless you count Eric's and Neils!). The language is way, way out there, and it leave no question as to what is going on, in words that I probably can't print here. For the viewer, this language makes every scene utterly real.
Things and scenes i especially liked:
the way Neil's mother "doesn't know" what he does for a living; yeah, I bet she doesn't!
Avalen calls Brian out to her farm in the middkle of the night. There in the field lies a dead cow, drained of it's blood (aliens of course have done this, according to Avalen). It is slit up the center, and she urges him. "Put your hand in!" Eventually he does...and then, puts it in deeper, and deeper, until only his elbow shows. "You didn't have to do THAT," says Avalen. Yes, he did.
The rapist and batterer of Neil uses a bottle of Johnson's Baby Shampoo to hit him with (among other things),. It says "No more tears" on it.
The way we follow Neil's thoghts in the final scene, as the camera pans up and up, until the two boys are little more than a speck on their couch. "I wished I could tell him everything would be all right now, but I knew it wouldn't, so i didn't. I just tried to make him understand how sorry I was. I wished we could rise out of there, like two angels in the night..." (Sorry, this is from memory; it's probably better in the film).
...and I still like the blown baseball game.
Gordon-Levitt, 24 at the time, brings a believable and three-dimensional quality to the chraracter of Neil McCormick that is overwhelmingly genuine and mesmerizing. The rest of the cast does excellent work here, but this is really Gordon-Levitt's picture. Of the three or four films in which I've seen him, this, in my mind, is his finest. In the most violently harrowing scene of the film, Gordon-Levitt playing a young male prostitute, encounters more than he can handle and for the first time in the film is not in control of his situation as he always has been. He realizes that the man who has taken him home clearly intends to violently rape him. He tries to get away by locking himself in the bathroom by means of a hook on the door. The man slips a knife through the crack in the door and flips up the hook. The look on Gordon-Levittt's face, and particularly in his eyes, is exactly that of a trapped animal. How he managed to convey this expression, I couldn't say, but it will give you nightmares or bring you to tears. He and Brady Corbet create two characters who finally meet in the final 15 minutes of the film which becomes terribly heart rending; but this is a film well worth watching because it is an important and unforgettable film dealing with the subject of child molestation that is an issue of increasing public awareness in these times.
The closing voice-over lines given by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Neil) to Brady Corbet (Brian) after explaining what was done to them when they were children that is the most touching moment in the film. Brian has collapsed, weeping, in Neil arms;
I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay.
But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway.
I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past.
But there wasn't.
There was nothing we could do.
So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate...
how sorry I was about what had happened.
And I thought of all the grief and sadness...
and f----d up suffering in the world...
and it made me want to escape.
I wished with all my heart that we could just...
Ieave this world behind.
Rise like two angels in the night and magically...
disappear.
ps: I more recently discovered that there is an excellent commentary track on this disc with director Gregg Araki, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet. It made me even more aware of the dedication and depth of feeling they and entire cast and company had for this remarkable film. The director explicitly points out that the two young actors who play the two boys at the ages of 7 and 8 were always protected from knowing what the subject matter of the film actually was. A specially prepared script was created for them, while their parents saw the complete script and only after being assured that their sons would always be protected from knowing the full subject matter of the film gave their approval. In most of the scenes involving the young boys, they were not playing to other actors, but to the camera with some innocent props while the highly sophisticated editing of the film led audiences to believe they were seeing things that they actually were not. Only after realizing these details does the intelligence and artfulness that went into this film become apparent.
More recently I purchased the Blu-ray disc of this film and the improvement in video and audio are striking and well worth the investment. Also there are many interesting extras with the Blu-ray edition that the DVD does not have.
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With some fine acting by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the lead character we are taking on an ever downward spiral of hell for two young men abused by a sports coach in a small town. The film features some graphic and brutal scenes of Homosexual sex acts which means it is unlikely to be on peak time tv any time soon.
The graphic sex and violence is integral to the story and whilst both shocking and disturbing is necessary to understand the characters concerned. It is a film that should be more widely seen so that the victims in this story are seen as that and not as described on IMDb as a "teenage hustler" - This is clearly not a life a child should have regardless of sexual orientation.
Overall a film that will be difficult watching, but one that all should see - it is not gay porn! but a brutal portrayal of life of many children in our cities tonight who are not receiving the help they so desperately need and were promised by various governments.
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