Mysterious Skin

Mar 25, 2006 23:06

Here's Isaac jumping the "do a review of something on your LJ" bandwagon... See how he runs.

So I just finished watching Mysterious Skin about 10 minutes ago and it is seriously an amazing movie. I'm not one on actor's names so i'm going to refer to them by their character names.

This movie was like....unsettling from the word go. It may just be my mind thinking i'm seeing something taboo but the entire movie my heart beat faster, I just felt like at any moment someone was going to burst into the room and give me a shock of my life...or catch me doing something wrong; luckily this really complimented how cavalier the main character, Neil, was about the fact he was molested as a child. I think the fact that he idolises his little league baseball coach is the thing that's so strange... I was also a little freaked out by how similar our likes towards guys were. All of the characters were great. The Baseball coach was generally charismatic and the guy playing it was either a real pedophile or DAMN good at getting into character. The whole film had a brutal realism to it. I have to say I didn't really like Brian right until the very end, Neil's friend, Eric, referred to him brilliantly as "Not queer...I think he's more asexual really". He felt like he should have had a feint dash of homosexuality in him but the molestation just like... smashed any semblance of sexuality out of him. It wasn't until the end when he discovers what happens to him, huddled in Neil's lap, crying, that I felt like he really was a person, which is probably how it should have been. Neil's friend, Wendy, is an interesting character, she know's what's happened to Neil but she's so close to him that it's like it's justa part of her life. She sits back and takes everything in, helping other people to understand Neil.

Neil's experiences as a rent-boy are something to. When he's in his small town he's in control, he's fucked every guy in his small town, but moving to new york really affects him and it's there that he stops being a moral black whole and really changes into a person... Side note...I would so fucking date him, HOT!

After the movie had finished I just felt nervous... At the very end of the movie you find out the whole thing of what happened to Brian, which I won't ruin for anyone who's going to watch it.. but the shocking detail of it just left me really shaken up.. I was just pacing around my room.. And I love the fact this movie managed to do that to me. I don't think i've ever been so affected by a movie...not even SHOWGIRLS.

I'm so glad I saw it by myself and didn't try and sneak into it when it was at the cinemas... It was such a personal thing for me i don't think i'd ever even want to discuss the movie with someone else who saw it.... of course I just basically wrote everything i felt down.. hmm.. quite the paradox my young isaac. quite the paradox
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