Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

  • Director: Gregg Araki
  • Writer: Gregg Araki,Scott Heim
  • Countries of origin: United States, Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • Release date: June 24, 2005
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Tenin Gizemi
  • "Mysterious Skin" by the Gregg Araki (Gregg Araki) directed by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Brady Corbet starred in a feature film, adapted from the 1995 Scott Heim (Scott Heim)'s best-selling original book of the same name.
    The film tells the story of the loss of the virginity of a child in the coach's house.

    Details

    • Release date June 24, 2005
    • Filming locations Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies Antidote Films (I), Desperate Pictures, Fortissimo Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $713,240

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $17,425

    Gross worldwide

    $1,532,932

    Movie reviews

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    • By Coralie 2022-08-03 12:26:29

      Mysterious Skin--An Incomplete Childhood is Fatal

      After reading it, I gave it 3 stars, and after reading some comments, my understanding was very different, so I re-read the beginning a few times, and I understood all the words I didn't know. Give it four stars. I love Neil in it. Just start with him. No father, a mother who loves him very much but is busy with work and keeps changing boyfriends. The baseball coach, then, is the perfect dad stand-in. I...

    • By Crawford 2022-07-20 15:19:13

      Mysterious Skin--A Bit Weird And A Bit Perverted Movie

      To tell you the truth, 

      I just watched my own private Idaho yesterday.

      I feel overshadowed by this movie. People who like this movie don't scold me...

      But the male protagonist looks like an Asian.

    • By Evie 2022-04-20 09:01:56

      Different life the same reality

      When I first watched it, I didn't understand anything. Only later did I understand what was going on. On the one hand, it tells the story of two people who took different paths because of being sexually assaulted. On the other hand, it also shows the selfishness, ruthlessness and cruelty between people.

      One of the most impressive is the boy who later became a male prostitute, and the film spends more time on his life and emotional details. Especially the part where he was beaten...

    • By Jaren 2022-04-20 09:01:56

      Every boy in Gregg Araki is an angel

      I'm starting to be kind of sure now that director Gregg Araki is indeed a homosexual.
      FromFrom the trilogy to Mysterious Skin, the boys in Japanese director Gregg Araki's film are angels.

      "People always see sex, drugs, and violence in my films, but what I want to express is actually the purest thing," the director said.

      Of all this man's work I've seen, my favorite, Absurd, warm, crazy,...

    • By Kameron 2022-04-20 09:01:56

      Don't get used to the injury, just explode in the injury

      After watching this movie, I have been amazed: the movie is so good! How can it be so beautiful?

      Originally, I had to watch BL movies because of the mentality, but when I slowly finished tasting it, I was about to be amazed. So amazing! First of all, the performance of the two male protagonists is very good. Neil had a rebellious ruffian beauty, but also melancholy, and that kind of love for his mother, for Wendy. He looks a little Chinese. Ha, maybe I'm thinking too much. When he...

    User comments

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    • By Monique 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      2011.06.04 @ Home Those things that happened, can't be erased, there will come a day, bang!

    • By Morris 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      Children's hearts are really...

    • By Ernestina 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      囧 Joseph used to be so skinny~~~ The two subordinates are very...

    • By Annamae 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      On the importance of adapting screenplays. Of course, the director's ability to control is a...

    • By Ayden 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      Jawsef is the...

    Movie plot

    Unforgettable childhood, lost memories, unbearable past, unforgettable true love. Neil and Brian, two 8-year-old boys, came to the coach's house on a stormy night. After layers of temptation, the boy's virginity passed away like a night breeze.
    This experience became blank in Brian's mind, only sporadic pictures and constant nightmares accompanied him. In Neil's heart was the kind of real shock, the young heart's feelings were beginning...
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    Evaluation action

    Imagine a movie full of Shoe-gazing soundtracks. Slowdive , Ride , Cocteau Twins , and even Sigur Rós , these white noises echo with the feedback of the movie's plot, sometimes like the super-realistic beauty of nature, sometimes like the whispering resonance of the protagonist's heart.
    Mysterious Skin is one of the most moving and beautiful movies I have ever seen, but his dark story of wandering on the edge of despair is also a...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Brian: [narration voice-over] The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours. Lost. Gone without a trace.

      Brian: [narration voice-over] Last thing I remember I was sitting on the bench at my Little League game. It started to rain. What happened after that remains a pitch black void.

    • [last lines]

      Neil: [narration voice-over] 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. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear.

    • Neil, Age 8: Are you ready? Here we go.