There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
There are spoilers! ! ! ! Please watch it after watching the movie! ! ! ! ! !
"Mysterious skin" is a film that makes childhood sexual assaults the most authentic and beautiful: the reality is in the presentation of the sexual abuse scenes and the psychological portrayal of the child being sexually abused, and the aesthetic is using the psychedelic British shoe-gazing The soundtrack complements another sense to describe the psychology of the child being sexually abused.
Neil and Brian respectively show two extreme psychology of children who have been sexually abused.
Neil belongs to the indulgent psychology, becoming a male prostitute, indulging in the sex of middle-aged men who can give him the feeling of a coach; Brian belongs to the avoidance psychology, and his self-defense mechanism makes him lose the memory of being sexually abused and bury this period. In the subconscious mind, the memory is transformed into the experience of being held hostage by aliens. In my dreams, I have repeatedly dreamed of an "alien" lying on his body and wearing baseball shoes.
The following is combined with the soundtrack description.
Whenever Neil recalls the "experience" with the coach, the soundtrack will switch to a British psychedelic and depraved shoe-gazing, which not only neutralizes the reality of the sexual abuse clips and the heaviness of the theme, but also creates an incredible dreamlike (I think this is why Australia has banned this film. They think it may be used by pedophiles to masturbate or induce children to have sexual arousal). However, it is precisely this soundtrack that helps to downplay the coach’s instigation and inducing role, unlike some similar movies (or news reports) that blindly demonize pedophilia and “blame” some homosexuals who have experienced sexual abuse. "Yu" is the fault of pedophilia. It seems that without pedophilia, there would be no such homosexuality.
On the contrary, the film may seem to be an understatement, but it never falls to the ground to portray the impact of Neil's unhealthy family growth environment on him, as well as his underlying sexual orientation. At the beginning of the movie, before Neil joined the baseball team, when he witnessed his mom and mom’s boyfriend stealing pleasure, his voice-over monologue said: "Seeing him (mother’s boyfriend) like this, whimpering and grunting, like a helpless animal, I couldn't take my eyes off him." It is true that the coach's inducement is also a big factor in causing Neil to become a queer, but it is obvious that Neil himself has a good impression of the same sex and enjoys same-sex contact. The most visible point was when Neil first saw the coach, he was immediately caught by the coach: "Desire sledgehammered me. He looked like lifeguards, cowboys, firemans I'd seen in the
And Brian—Brian was picked home by Neil and the coach accidentally on the baseball field, so Brian couldn’t seem to be a queer and love the coach. Like Neil, he accepts and enjoys the time with the coach, so for Brian, 5 hours with the coach is not only obscenity, but also rape. However, when Brian dreams or tries to recall his experience of being "held by aliens" At the time, although the soundtrack was not so romantic, the director still used the psychedelic shoe-gazing soundtrack. On the screen, Brian’s face was turned upside down, and it was difficult to distinguish his real expression (not to mention the innocent little actor. It’s impossible to perform anything), but the psychedelic soundtrack here is conveying another message that is different from Neil—many children who have been sexually assaulted have experienced sexual pleasure in the process of being sexually assaulted, and then often Feeling guilty and self-blame, not dare to face myself, and develop into an avoidant personality. It is precisely because I can't accept what the coach and Neil have done to him, and I can't accept the unwillingness of the situation, but I am ashamed. With the pleasure of confusion, Brian’s psychological defense mechanism will erase the memory of those 5 hours and the 1 hour of Halloween afterwards, so that he will no longer be tortured by guilt every time he thinks. But the memory is erased. Go, but in fact this painful memory carries more emotions and escapes into the subconscious. This is why when Brian dreamed of the dream of being "hijacked by aliens", he was suppressed in the subconscious's various sexual fears, Sexual desires surfaced, and the soundtrack was sadly revealing Brian's painful, ashamed, and unspeakable experience of sexual abuse.
Therefore, the selection of the entire soundtrack not only once again reflects Gregg Araki's outstanding musical taste (post-rock and shoegazing are used in each of his films), but also reflects the director's keenness of the feelings and atmosphere in music. "Aesthetic intuition" (I call this artistic intuition) and excellent control over music and emotions.
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sloppy writing, I am ready to go to bed. Welcome to discuss!
Finally, attach a few paragraphs of my favorite lines:
Wendy: And you have to understand one thing: where normal people have a heart, Neil McCormick has a bottomless black hole. If you don't watch out, you'll get fall in and you'll get lost forever.
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Neil: As we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian that it was over now and that everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and tried to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what happened. And I thought of all the grief and suffering and fucked up stuff in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically disappear.
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Finally, attach the original soundtrack:
Mysterious Skin (Music from the Film) http://www.xiami.com/album/169224
and not included Song from the original soundtrack:
"Golden Hair"
Written by Syd Barrett
Performed by Slowdive
"Galaxy"
Written by Dean Garcia, Toni Halliday
Performed by Curve
"Game Show"
Composed and Produced by Dag Gabrielsen
"Catch the Breeze"
Written by Neil Halstead
Performed by Slowdive
"Crushed"
Written by Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde
Performed by Cocteau Twins
"Dagger"
Written by Neil Halstead
Performed by Slowdive
"I Guess I Fell in Love Last Night"
Composed and Produced by Dag Gabrielsen
Pianist: Alex Lacamoire
"I Could Do Without Her"
Composed and Produced by Dag Gabrielsen
Pianist:Alex Lacamoire
"Drive Blind"
The ending theme of Written by Steve Queralt, Mark Gardener, Loz Colbert, Andy Bell
Performed by Ride
and shredded pork with loofah! ! !
"Samskeyti"
Written by Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm, Orri P. Dyrason
Performed by Sigur Rós
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