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[sour_idealist]

So... I just watched Mysterious Skin.

Well.

Fuck.

I think this is the most emotionally disturbed by a movie that I have ever been in my life. I was actually almost crying as the credits rolled. That's never happened before.

I feel like I ought to have some kind of analytical thought, but I don't really, not beyond "...these kids." Wow. Holden

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[cat_eyed_fox]

Oh dude! I'm still traumatized by that movie! It was great, amazing movie, but... that's why it's so awful what happened to these kids.

[sour_idealist]

Exactly, it's an incredibly well-made movie (and dammit, okay, I'm officially a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt now, because that was a hell of a heartbreaking performance - same to Brian's actor, I have to find out what else he's been in) but... at least half an hour of it I didn't actually watch, I just stared pointedly at something else and listened to the audio so I wouldn't lose track of the plot entirely.

(Evidently someone tried to have this banned because they thought it was pro-pedophilia? To which I can only say: what.)

[revieloutionne]

Brady Corbett was in the live-action Thunderbirds movie. Other than that, I've got nothin, though imdb I'm sure has plenty.

(...)

(what)

[sour_idealist]

Well, that's A BIT DIFFERENT. So this movie was a "he really can do serious acting" moment for several of its stars, I'm gathering?

(There are so many movies I am never going to be able to watch the same way after this. Yikes.)

[cat_eyed_fox]

Morons, the lot of them. They tried to get "Let the Right One In" taken off the shelves at my Hollywood video when I worked there for that same stupid reason. But yeah, I wish I had hidden my eyes for several scenes, because I did not need those images in my brain.

[sour_idealist]

I don't think I know Let the Right One In, but the name sounds familiar. For some reason my brain is tossing up bb!vampires.

I barely even saw the baseball coach, yeah. (Sadly, I was too caught up in everything to look away for most of the Brighton Beach scenes, and, just, Neil. Sorry, incoherently sobbing again.)

[cat_eyed_fox]

Well played, your brain. It's a... Swedish(?) film, set in the '80s about a 12 year old looking girl vampire and there's one scene where the physiology of the girl is shown for like .5 seconds to show that she is not even kind of human anymore. So not a pervy moment, but did the concerned citizens ever get upset!
Strangely it was the Shower Scene that fucked my brain up, not the childhood scenes. I mean, yes they were horrific, but the graphic violent rape effected me more. Even implied. There are several episodes of Battlestar Galactica that I can't rewatch because of something that doesn't even happen on screen.

[sour_idealist]

Yeah, I can see where problems would come up with that.

I think the worst part with the child scenes was the anticipation, watching and knowing where it was all going, but I'm just sort of weird that way. I can see where the shower scene would be the worst, though, since that's the one where the character is most clearly aware of what's happening to them.

Oddly, the scene that's been randomly coming back to me and ripping me open all day isn't any of the violent or sexual ones but the very last one, and not even the part where Neil is describing all of it but that very last speech, from the moment they hear the carolers to when the credits roll. "And as we sat there, listening to the carolers, 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." And now I'm all choked up.

[cat_eyed_fox]

Yes, exactly. It was the awareness of what was happening to him.
And the sad thing is that I can't even remember much of the rest of the film. I can remember that scene perfectly, but the end scene? I have no memory of. Course it was years ago that I watched it.

[sour_idealist]

You could see it, too. Incredibly acted.

The last scene is the part where Brian, the other kid, finally tracked Neil down and Neil explained everything that happened, in fairly brutal detail. And Brian just breaks down, understandably, and Neil has that line and a bit more about it. The whole thing kind of highlights exactly how much it all hurt them.

[cat_eyed_fox]

Hmm, I sort of kind of remember that. And I definitely remember being an emotional wreck after the movie ended. I'd say I should rewatch it, but um... I don't think I can.

[sour_idealist]

I entirely understand that reaction.

[cat_eyed_fox]

Can you imagine buying the flick? Like watching it over and over again? Do people do that?

[sour_idealist]

I don't know. I can see wanting to watch it again, someday, and I could see wanting to buy it just to have it on hand for when you do want to watch it, and it might be different watching it a second time. I don't know.

[cat_eyed_fox]

I suppose. No, that makes sense.