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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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[revieloutionne]

THAT MOVIE. I thought I was going into it knowing what it was, but no. I don't know if anything can prepare you for it.

It's also a book. I don't know if I more want to read it or avoid it.

[sour_idealist]

Yeah. I practically had a blow-by-blow plot synopsis already going in, and I think it actually made it worse because I kept thinking "so is this the scene where..."

I think a book version would actually be easier, at least for me; I tend to have a way higher squick threshold in print. (I mean, this would be way over it anyway, but I think there would be less of my eyes bugging out of my head.)

[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.)

[fae_boleyn]

See, this is why I'm afraid to see Mysterious Skin. I feel like I'd react more or less the same way, and I am not sure I want to.

[sour_idealist]

Hmm. It's an incredibly, incredibly good movie and after sleeping on it I'm really glad I saw it, I don't mean to scare anybody away, but it definitely isn't comfortable. (Also about as triggery as it gets, so... be aware.)

I was going to say that it would have gone better if I hadn't watched it alone at midnight, but I actually don't know who I'd be comfortable watching it with. So.