There is a kind of human nature that is destined to fail to achieve these two premises, and that is the preference for Luoli and Zhengtai. The most fundamental shortcoming is that a child has too little experience, and they cannot rationally accept or reject your bed requests after some thinking. "Mysterious Skin" stands out among many ethical films I have watched because it uses a very realistic approach to face up to and analyze this social problem.
The story starts with two boys who have had the same experience. Their family education levels are very different, their later social experiences are different, their personalities and methods of exploring human nature are different, but in the end they return to the first time they didn’t accept it. The prepared special way of love hugs them together, endures the same shadow that the same beginning brings to them, and after each walks around half the earth, they are surprised to find that they have the same goal by different routes. The author of the novel undoubtedly wanted to use this to warn the world, no matter what kind of difference a child has experienced in society in the future, psychological depression in childhood will always have a very serious impact on their mentality throughout their lives. "And "Identity".
Neil walked a bright line. After experiencing sodomy and being sodomized by a baseball coach who could be his father in the same year, the shadow of Zhengtai directly enveloped his life. Because of the good training of the baseball coach, Neil didn't feel too guilty about acting with adult men. On the contrary, he once felt the pleasure of the flesh from it, although he was gradually lost in this unique love. But in the end, he embarked on the road of no return. But it must be noted that the author of the novel has deep sympathy for this social phenomenon from beginning to end, so he made the last three times of the story more and more cruel, from an impulsive slap to a strange skin disease. Finally, that Christmas Eve, hanging upside down in the bathtub while being beaten to bleed while going on. . .
Brian walked a dark line. The difference between him and Neil was that he didn't treat this kind of indecent as a kind of love from the beginning, so he lost the memory of this experience since the first experience. Ironically, he attributed his frustration during this period to the experience of being taken away by aliens, and started contacting a disabled girl in Kansas State who claimed to have a similar experience, until suddenly one day the girl was brutally pulled down. With his pants, Brian realized that the scar on the girl's thigh and touching the cow's inner body that night were nothing more than one sexual suggestion. Although he is not always affected by the shadow of the heart like Neil, although Brian can't recall the events of the frustration, but he is very aware that what he experienced was a kind of fear, so once he tried to remember, he began to bleed until he went into shock. (This point has to remind us of "Butterfly Effect").
Now go back to the point I made at the beginning. When children are young, they don't know anything about sex. Therefore, whether it is Zhengtai or Luoli, as long as you touch him, then it doesn't matter if you love me. What's more serious is not that you love him in your own way with a smile on your face, but that you leave the children in a new, unknown, and fearful world after enjoying the pleasure of this sin. This point is aimed at modern society. In ancient times, being a boy was still a trend of the times, and everything was still reluctant, because these children would not suffer as much as modern society when they were put in the society. Even the sculptures in "Samaria" looked down upon him.
The other aspect of the comprehensive plot is that it does not completely attribute the Zhengtai phenomenon to the perverted sex monsters. All the children who are sacrificed in the movie have another dark psychology, that is, childhood loneliness. Although Brian and Neil have different classes in their families, their family has one great thing in common is the lack of paternal love. Brian's reaction to this was his dislike of his father, while Neil's desire for his father's love was cruelly exploited by the middle-aged man. If we observe more carefully, we can guess that Miss Kansas also encountered a similar situation. Her mother did not appear in the movie, and her father is also a very cold character, so in such a lonely childhood, the girl began to weave the story of aliens, the desire for sex made her deceive Brian, and finally she His desire still ends in tragedy. The theme of pedophilia is not new. There is childishness in ancient times in China and abroad, but in modern times there is Bonakov's famous "Lolita". What makes "Mysterious Skin" stand out is that it completely stands on the position of the victim, while in "Lolita" we just saw Humbert's wonderful speech on aesthetics as a hunter, completely ignored To another subject of human nature; moreover, "MS" expounds the background of such an ethical phenomenon incisively and vividly, so it has a suffocating sense of reality.
Another point I have to admire: I wonder if you were watching Libang paint or some kind of toilet toilet advertisements. What do those kids who show their buttocks in front of audiences all over the world think when they see these advertisements? I have to admit that some children will bring back fond memories of childhood, but there will always be some who think that it is a bit embarrassing to make such an advertisement by their parents when they are ignorant. Then, you have to appreciate this movie even more, because he boldly described the sexual scenes of virgin sex. Although these scenes are described from the side, you will feel the expressions and the exciting twitches. reality. Therefore, the filming process of such a film inevitably encountered various obstacles, and its difficulty was no less than that of a children's program performed by a fox and a chicken. But behind this film, I couldn’t be concealed. All kinds of obsessions that I can't even imagine.
Originally I wanted to write about the narrative techniques of the film. The editing of the lens has already played a part in the clever role of the surreal plot, but please forgive me, I still haven't recovered from the shock of the values themselves.
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