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 Mysterious Skin (DVD)
 Mysterious Skin (DVD) ... at Tartan Video / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / In Mysterious Skin, an unlikely director takes on an even more unlikely lead actor and crafts a deeply felt coming-of-age tale that pulsates with the scalding beauty of tragedy. The director, Gregg Araki, whose over-the-top, gay melodramas have been criticised as largely empty provocations, proves himself here to have great sensitivity. Yet it is the lead actor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, best known for his work on the alien sitcom 'Third Rock From The Sun', whose unforgettable, nuanced performance makes the film. Based on the novel by Scott Heim, the story follows two teenage boys living in small-town Kansas: Brian (Brady Corbet), a clunky and awkward fellow with no discernible social life; and Neil (Gordon-Levitt), a rebellious gay youth whose fragile beauty and cruel indifference make him a successful hustler to the area's older men. Having suffered from blackouts as a child, Brian believes that these voids were actually alien abductions, and goes on a quest to confirm this. As his memories become increasingly vivid, Brian convinces himself that Neil, the star player on his childhood Little League team and a regular presence in his dreams, knows the truth. Neil does, in fact, know exactly what happened. The boys were sexually abused by their Little League coach. While Brian has suppressed the incident, Neil has held it deep within him like a treasure, considering it to have been a loving relationship of respect and tenderness, the absence of which has left him emotionally empty. The two strands of narrative are braided together elegantly, slowly leading up to a devastating final scene. Araki unifies the stories through an elegiac, celestial tone that manages to avoid preachiness via doses of appropriate humour. 'Mysterious Skin' is so profoundly alive with sadness and beauty that it nearly burns.Newest Review: ... it has on its victims. Neil McCormick (Chase Ellison/Joseph Gorden-Levitt) and Brian Lackey (George Webster/Brady Corbet) are ... more ... just eight years old when they are sexually abused by their little league baseball coach. The incident affects the boy's lives in very different ways, as the films tag line puts it "Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget."
Mysterious Skins is daring, disturbing and in some places nothing but beautiful. The final scene in particular is filmmaking at its very finest, the sort of stuff which will stay with you a very long time. There are things in the film which will shock you into turning away ...more |
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Mysterious Skin [DVD] [2005]
Release Date: 2005 - 10 - 24, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over, Last Update 09.11.2009 05:40
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Mysterious Skin (DVD): Mysterious Skin: "The summer I was 8 years old, five hours d ... (564 words)
by - written on 19/08/09 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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Mysterious Skin is a 2005 mystery drama from independent gay cinema pioneer Gregg Araki. Based on the novel of the same name by writer Scott Heim, the film follows the lives of two young victims of child abuse in small town America. I had never heard of Mysterious Skin or even its director Araki until recently, when it was recommended to me and spoken of very highly. I decided to check it out and went into it knowing very little of the plot apart from the basic premise. Mysterious Skin has really blown me away, it's a film which dares to push the boundaries of what is acceptable to show in a film and does it in a utterly beautiful way. The film ... Read the complete review
"I hate it when they look like Tarzan and sound like Jane" (1092 words)
by - written on 11/10/07 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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Mixing pedophilia and homosexuality is always going to raise some heckles, especially in a Hollywood movie, as this film dares to do and have no qualms about it. Provocative is not the word. In general this type of sex offender is attracted to kids rather than a certain sexuality and so the link is very taboo to make. But Director Greg Araki and writer Scott Heim wants to make that connection, but in an intelligent and non offensive way, all the gay men having mustaches in keeping with his black humor approach to the matter and one of the boys molested in the film actually quite enjoying it. I have seen some risk taking acting and directing before but this is on another ... Read the complete review
Mysterious Skin (DVD): It's Got You Under It's Skin (711 words)
by - written on 11/12/05 (Very useful, 93 readings)
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I’ve never been a fan of Gregg Araki yet his films have a cult fan base. Personally I’ve always found them to be bordering on offensive, featuring over the top performances, vomit-inducing visuals and generally devoid of anything worthwhile. But Mysterious Skin marks a change in direction for the director. The dark edge is still there but it’s now got some substance – the result is an unsettling, tragic look at the effects of sexual abuse on minors. Neil McCormick is a young gay hustler in a dead end American town. His hours are spent in seedy motel rooms and the back seats of cars with older men in exchange for money. His perception of love was ... Read the complete review
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