Sep 28, 2006 19:05
"Mysterious Skin"
Just watched this film, it was extremely disturbing, it makes Harmony Korine's "Kids" looks like a Disney film..
The film was directed by Greg Araki who has a reputation of doing disturbing films such as "Doom Generation" and "Nowhere"but unlike those films this film was more focused on the plot and didn't seem to have too many concepts all rolled into one.. Disturbing? Very Much so, but definitely a more focused film than Araki's previous works which makes it powerful..
The film is about a boy who was molested by a little league coach when he was younger and his the path of self destruction that followed him into his formative years.. The film also centers around another boy that was on the same little league team who grew up thinking that he was abducted by UFO's.. Good film but not for the faint of heart or overly sensitive.. Hell, it's not even for the Moderately Sensitive.. I'll go as far as to say, you need to be pretty desensitized to watch this film..