Mysterious Skin
It's five o-fucking clock in the morning, and I can't sleep. Lol. Oddly enough, I'm not irritated. But, that's probably because I understand why - I just watched Mysterious Skin. It's from... 2004, I think? I watched it cause it stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And... I don't know. It just left me in complete shock. I'm so wired I can't sleep.
Like... the movie just left me blank. I got chills down my spine when the credits rolled by. It was... intense. Really intense. And there's some things that really bother me, but I don't want to think about them too deeply yet because it's just terrible. So I'll start with the concrete: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I watched it just because of him, and ... wow. He delivered. I'm not a movie watcher, and I know zip about celebrities. And the ones I do know - Robert Downey Jr, Johny Depp, Jared Padalecki... I've only seen in roles that are fairly similar to one another. AKA, the Johny Depp and RDJr movies I've seen them in always have them as a slightly off-kilter character.
But this... I watched JGL in Inception, duh, and everyone here probably knows what I''m talking about. Arthur is... if I had to describe him, I'd say a square. LOL, not in the boring way, but like... perfect, angled, sharp and dangerous. He's all about precision, uptight, calculating (not coldly, necessarily), and someone who knows his way around the world very well. He understands risks and takes precautions. He's informed. HeControlled. Everything he does he puts thought behind. Nothing is a 'whatever, let's just go with the flow'.
But in Mysterious Skin... he plays a character that's the polar opposite, and the abysmal gap, the wild dichotomy, left me reeling. Neil is.... in actions, like a whirlwind. His gait is uncontrolled, cocky, and yet he's, for most of the movie, this odd emotional void. He's naive in the sense of... jaded beyond belief, but somehow just tossing himself to the world without a thought to himself or those around him, and it takes a real bad situation to wake him up and make him realize his worth and himself. He's a bunch of squiggly lines, I'd say. Like a volcano waiting to erupt, wild, just this... loose youth, with no concerns for reputation or social propriety. I mean, he's a male hustler. He just... to put it bluntly, he doesn't give a fuck about anything in life.
I don't know... I mean, I'm just in shock at how well, and how distinctly he was able to play two characters as wildly different as Neil and Arthur. I'm an even bigger fan of him now. I mean, if this is acting... if this is what it means to act... I'm so, so impressed. In both characters however... oddly enough, I felt like he he was never drawing attention to himself. Just his mere presence was so strong it draws you in. This is more true in Inception, since Arthur is a side character, after all, but his loyal, constant presence is so strong. In Mysterious Skin he was one of the main characters, but he never tried to draw attention to himself. He sort of... just did, by merely being there.
God, if I had to describe Neil... he's like a jaded, delicate Apollo. Godly. He was beautiful.
The movies was ... I don't know if I have words for it. If I let myself, I could be very upset about it. In a pissed off, bothered kind of way, not crying. I just hate to think that things like that really do happen to children, and I think it's terrible. Absolutely terrible. And what makes it worse is how absolutely beautiful the child that plays Neil's younger self is.
I guess my verdict is.... it's a beautiful, but intense movie. Though nothing is shown explicitly... well, it's rated R for a reason, and it's graphic in a horrifyingly emotional way.
Dunno if I should sleep now. Lol. I'm still kinda wired. I tried to sleep for an hour, but I couldn't get the images and these weird impressions out of my head, and I was just... tense. Wired. My mind was just crowded. So I gave up and took a shower, and now I'm.... still here.
Like... the movie just left me blank. I got chills down my spine when the credits rolled by. It was... intense. Really intense. And there's some things that really bother me, but I don't want to think about them too deeply yet because it's just terrible. So I'll start with the concrete: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I watched it just because of him, and ... wow. He delivered. I'm not a movie watcher, and I know zip about celebrities. And the ones I do know - Robert Downey Jr, Johny Depp, Jared Padalecki... I've only seen in roles that are fairly similar to one another. AKA, the Johny Depp and RDJr movies I've seen them in always have them as a slightly off-kilter character.
But this... I watched JGL in Inception, duh, and everyone here probably knows what I''m talking about. Arthur is... if I had to describe him, I'd say a square. LOL, not in the boring way, but like... perfect, angled, sharp and dangerous. He's all about precision, uptight, calculating (not coldly, necessarily), and someone who knows his way around the world very well. He understands risks and takes precautions. He's informed. HeControlled. Everything he does he puts thought behind. Nothing is a 'whatever, let's just go with the flow'.
But in Mysterious Skin... he plays a character that's the polar opposite, and the abysmal gap, the wild dichotomy, left me reeling. Neil is.... in actions, like a whirlwind. His gait is uncontrolled, cocky, and yet he's, for most of the movie, this odd emotional void. He's naive in the sense of... jaded beyond belief, but somehow just tossing himself to the world without a thought to himself or those around him, and it takes a real bad situation to wake him up and make him realize his worth and himself. He's a bunch of squiggly lines, I'd say. Like a volcano waiting to erupt, wild, just this... loose youth, with no concerns for reputation or social propriety. I mean, he's a male hustler. He just... to put it bluntly, he doesn't give a fuck about anything in life.
I don't know... I mean, I'm just in shock at how well, and how distinctly he was able to play two characters as wildly different as Neil and Arthur. I'm an even bigger fan of him now. I mean, if this is acting... if this is what it means to act... I'm so, so impressed. In both characters however... oddly enough, I felt like he he was never drawing attention to himself. Just his mere presence was so strong it draws you in. This is more true in Inception, since Arthur is a side character, after all, but his loyal, constant presence is so strong. In Mysterious Skin he was one of the main characters, but he never tried to draw attention to himself. He sort of... just did, by merely being there.
God, if I had to describe Neil... he's like a jaded, delicate Apollo. Godly. He was beautiful.
The movies was ... I don't know if I have words for it. If I let myself, I could be very upset about it. In a pissed off, bothered kind of way, not crying. I just hate to think that things like that really do happen to children, and I think it's terrible. Absolutely terrible. And what makes it worse is how absolutely beautiful the child that plays Neil's younger self is.
I guess my verdict is.... it's a beautiful, but intense movie. Though nothing is shown explicitly... well, it's rated R for a reason, and it's graphic in a horrifyingly emotional way.
Dunno if I should sleep now. Lol. I'm still kinda wired. I tried to sleep for an hour, but I couldn't get the images and these weird impressions out of my head, and I was just... tense. Wired. My mind was just crowded. So I gave up and took a shower, and now I'm.... still here.