Mysterious Skin

[WyteWatt]

I was looking at upcoming moving and saw a movie called Mysterious Skin and never heard about it before. Has anyone else heard about this movie? Looks strange. Has anyone seen it yet? I don't plan on seeing it because it doesn't look good or right.

 

[BW86]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

 

[WyteWatt]

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

 

[aidanjm]

It's by Gregg Araki, who made my all time fave teen movie, "Totally Fvcked Up".

 

[nakedfrog]

I thought this was going to be about the skin the guy found in his Arby's chicken sandwich.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

I don't see what's horrible, disgusting or sick about it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, actually.

 

[nakedfrog]

Sounds like an interesting movie.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Sounds like an interesting movie.

It deals with some "disturbing" issues, like pedophilia. It's about two kids who were sexually abused by a sports coach when they were kids.

 

[WyteWatt]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

I don't see what's horrible, disgusting or sick about it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, actually.

NM

 

[WyteWatt]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Sounds like an interesting movie.

It deals with some "disturbing" issues, like pedophilia. It's about two kids who were sexually abused by a sports coach when they were kids.

Yes but why are people looking forward to see a movie like this? Thats what I don't understand? Is it because people want to understand ?

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

I don't see what's horrible, disgusting or sick about it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, actually.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. Can't a man fall in love with a boy?

Then a user who reviews it says:

The film was very powerful for me.It was so not because the director was brave enough to show sex between men(everybody shows those kind of scenes nowadays),not because he meant child abuse(there are movies that SHOW child abuse-Bad Education...) but because of Neil.The character of Neil was drawn very successfully,so as the character of Brian.Neil is clever,handsome-beautiful and very much aware of himself.He is aware that if he had no relation with his coach in his childhood,he would become a normal man,a father etc.But he does not regret,he is sure his coach was in love with him.Even at the end of movie,when he explains Brian what the coach had done to him,he is taking his revange,like cheated wife...Seeing Elizabeth Shue as a mother of herself from Leavig Las Vegas was another interesting point.

If you don't see anything sick and disgusting in the plot review here, make sure you join the Catholic church, stat, and become some "high-up" figure in their disturbing hierarchy.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Sounds like an interesting movie.

It deals with some "disturbing" issues, like pedophilia. It's about two kids who were sexually abused by a sports coach when they were kids.

Yes but why are people looking forward to see a movie like this? Thats what I don't understand? Is it because people want to understand ?

Well, Greg Araki is a brilliant film maker, so people are interested to see what his latest film is about.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

I don't see what's horrible, disgusting or sick about it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, actually.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. Can't a man fall in love with a boy?

Then a user who reviews it says:

The film was very powerful for me.It was so not because the director was brave enough to show sex between men(everybody shows those kind of scenes nowadays),not because he meant child abuse(there are movies that SHOW child abuse-Bad Education...) but because of Neil.The character of Neil was drawn very successfully,so as the character of Brian.Neil is clever,handsome-beautiful and very much aware of himself.He is aware that if he had no relation with his coach in his childhood,he would become a normal man,a father etc.But he does not regret,he is sure his coach was in love with him.Even at the end of movie,when he explains Brian what the coach had done to him,he is taking his revange,like cheated wife...Seeing Elizabeth Shue as a mother of herself from Leavig Las Vegas was another interesting point.

If you don't see anything sick and disgusting in the plot review here, make sure you join the Catholic church, stat, and become some "high-up" figure in their disturbing hierarchy.

So you're saying it is not legitimate to make art about the more disturbing things in life? We should only go and see happy films where nothing bad happens?

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: BW86
http://imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Yes. The strange is it says its about aliens but it really isn't. Thats stupid how they do that. I mean why trick people in seeing a horrible, disgusting, sick movie?

I don't see what's horrible, disgusting or sick about it. I'm looking forward to seeing it, actually.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. Can't a man fall in love with a boy?

The above was apparently written by someone from Turkey with a very poor grasp of English. Read this for a more accurate overview of the film:


In Araki's "Mysterious Skin," two boys haunted by childhood abuse at the hands of the same man, come of age and follow divergent paths that ultimately lead them back to each other. In the lead, Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Manic") shines as a hustler on a road to nowhere. Talking with me about the film earlier this week, Araki explained that he set out to create a movie that would devastate his audience. Indeed, by the time the two young men re-connect in a tender moment at the conclusion of the film, the audience is stunned. Discussing that particular scene during our chat, Araki himself began to choke up. "I had never read anything by somebody else that really, really had such a powerful impact on me," Araki explained, referring to Scott Heim's novel upon which the film is based.

"I love the ending of the movie," Araki reinforced, "It is such a perfect blend of light and dark, a sense of the beginning of the healing."

Araki explained that he has already been struck, at screenings in Venice and now Toronto, by the potential for a wider audience with this movie. He's seen older crowds, namely middle-aged women, drawn to the picture. And he has shed any impressions that he speaks for a particular audience or group.

"I felt like people wanted me to be a spokesperson," Araki said, referring to his work in the 90s, "I am not a propagandist, I am not out to speak for anybody."

Concluding, Araki said of his new movie, "People you can't imagine at a Gregg Araki movie are responding to it in a profound and emotional way."

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