Mysterious Skin

So I finally watched "Mysterious Skin" last night. Its been a film I wanted to see since I realised that Joseph Gordon Levitt was on it. You remember him, he's from "Third Rock From the Sun"? N E Ways, what appealed to me were the comments on his acting. And after watching this movie, WOW!

Okay, first off .. this movie is twisted. In fact, the clerk at Roger's Video HAD to remind us off the extreme warning label due to the fact that some scene's that may be perturbing to some veiwers. "Disturbing"?! Thats putting it lightly. Let me just tell you this, if you beleive in puppies and rainbows and that everything will work out in the end ... well don't watch this movie. This movie was designed to shock people, and shocking it is. Sure, you don't actually see molestation or anything, but it is very VERY suggestive. Not to mention, the characters bluntly speak of whats been done. In the end I feel this movie's intention was to shock and that no matter how twisted some of the characters are, you can't help but feel for them. Even though if you ever met them in real life, "feeling for them" is probably the last thing you do (first thing you'd do is avoid them). And by avoid, I'm speaking in reference to one's behaviour later in life after a traumatizing event that the two main characters portray; which by the way is performed significantly well by its main actors.

Secondly, the acting. WOW! Joe G. Levitt in 3rd Rock HAS GOT NOTHING on the character he plays in this film. He pulls off the role of emotionally empty street hustler perfectly, thats its almost disturbing (but just keep reminding yourself, its a movie ... I'm sure lil Joe G. Levitt is not really like that). I'd say his acting is so ingenious and deep that its compelling to make you finish the film; even though in some parts of the movie your thinking "Oh My Fuggin God."

But, if you want a film that pulls you in for quite an "experience", this be the one.

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Premise:
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace ..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceieved to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking.

Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil - who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, MYSTERIOUS SKIN explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.