Mysterious Skin

Tess 2022-01-04 08:01:22

The colorful candies are raining like a
faint blue light from the top of their heads , weird and quiet, as if from an unknown world,
two eight-year-old boys with innocent smiles and ignorant eyes
that summer that summer

One boy can't remember
The other can 't forget

a boy who saw his mother for the first time and intimate with a man eight years old when
determining their favorite type of object from mother boyfriends
mother time to take care of the summer of that year was lost in the baseball team's life
is full of mature charm of his special coach The candies flying in the sky from the coach’s preferential treatment
made him feel the love he had never had before.

When another boy was eight years old, his life had disappeared for five hours. He
only knew that he had a nosebleed when he woke up from the basement.
From then on, the boy's nightmares became easy again and again. collapsed

after years Neil has grown into a handsome youth at
mouth slightly evoke cynical sneer
blue eyes are beautiful but empty eyes can not see the resurrection
he became a male prostitute had a relationship with the town happened almost every middle-aged man
he fell exile trying to find their own childhood baseball coach who figure in these men

and Brian began to indulge in the mysterious UFO events
he paranoid search for aliens and believes he was abducted by aliens as a child
was eight years old for no reason is the disappearance of five hours The gloomy memory
in his heart that he didn’t want to touch. Ever since he found Neil, the trajectory of the two of them has come back to the same line,
and his pursuit has gradually brought him closer to the truth of the matter.

The memories that all the nightmares did not want to face.
Changes and transformations in life himself produced
it all stems from that period of painful childhood experiences
and whether they choose to forget or indulgent escape from the original nightmare


when Heath Ledger silent fall
I'm going to look back at his past works
but after some thought to myself after
finally pulled out the "mysterious skin" from the CD racks of DVD

mysterious skin mysterious skin
Released: 2005 director: Gregg Araki
cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Brady Corbet

always think of Neil played with Joseph Heath Ledger is somewhat similar,
but he is thinner and more sensitive and fragile than Heath.
It is undoubtedly appropriate to play such a role.
Somehow
I have always preferred "Mysterious Skin" over the famous "Broken Arm Mountain"

. mysterious skin "is a beautiful and sad movies
walk on the edge of despair obscure story heartbreaking sense of loss, but also makes people
homosexual pedophile prostitution
almost all taboo words are covered by a film
, but the film's point of view was the same with other types different movie
very gently narrative does not criticize anybody
nor the moral code imposed on any person
, including the fall of prostitutes and pious clients perverted pedophile coaches
which makes a higher conception of the film
and we in the audience also As the plot develops, the truth is revealed and the
protagonist embarks on a path of introspection and sober exploration

Neil prostitutes to explore self-liberation through the body
he has a fragile beauty with a decadent but awe-inspiring inviolability of attitude
this Hush, Hush stance led him irresistible attraction for the people around them
from childhood to accompany his friend Wendy grew up aware of all his in the past
she warned friends not easily crush on him because he is a black hole
these words are said to herself

Neil despite being warned with all kinds of men occurred relationship Wendy
Young face loss of life threatening behavior is indifferent to
numb himself to indulge his eyes No longer clear.
Since that summer, after the coach evaporates from the world,
his eyes have lost their previous agility and brilliance.

Faced with the old man infected with AIDS, the dark brown scars
all over his body. Neil did not show a look of fear. There is only compassion on his face.
"Please rub my back, I need someone to touch me."
Neil listened to the old man moaning
joyfully from his massage and looked away in dispassion. His eyes were unresolved sadness
without tears, but a crying face.

he bolted the night began to face up to their wounds
, he said to Wendy
, "that summer something very important to me ...
no one has given me feeling like ... I'm special,"
even if the coach was sexual abuse
he I have no hesitation in believing that he was once deeply loved.
That summer the coach’s love for him only
gave him happiness and joy that he had never had before,
so in this life he was destined to only live with this small happiness.

This is What kind of sad and
stray youth
With more damage difficult to heal the scars to cover up
until the night before Christmas
alone, he promised his mother living in New York at home for Christmas
, but on the way to the airport
for a coach clients looks similar stature to stay
but he did not find the childhood gentle pleasure but was violently abused
beaten abuse face covered in blood pressure was in the tub ...
naked sitting in the corner
teenager around his buried crying
like a small wounded animal sobbing sound thin body trembling
finally understand I should give up and give up on chasing everything

. Neil went back to his hometown and saw Brian
Neil, who had been looking for him for a long time. He knew that he should give Brian a confession.
They came to the coach’s cabin.
Neil slowly said that Brian was trembling. the owner Neil tighter
so they sat on the couch cuddling
truth but they have not go back

now the menu is quietly rising
dark space, only one pair of shimmering figure of
Neil holding the head of Brian's
mind meditation

I wanted to tell him it's over all right
but that is a lie and I can not tell
really hope we can write off the past
but we can not do anything ...
I think unfortunately feel sorrow and pain of the world and wanted to run away
I really hope that we can set aside the world and fly into the night sky like angels.
Magically... disappear.

Seeing here, I think of a picture in the film.
15-year-old boy and girl standing side by side at the open-air cinema screen
teenager says, "I wish now movie"
"I also play our experiences so far," the girl said

the girl picked up the speakers and listened
, "I heard a voice."
At this point point snowflakes fall from the sky
girl said, "is the voice of God,"
"I have heard," said the boy,

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Mysterious Skin quotes

  • Wendy: I can't believe I'm finally getting out of this fucking nowhere town!

  • Eric: I got a postcard from Wendy.

    Neil: I think she's mad at me because I owe her like 3 letters.

    Eric: Yeah, her last P.S. is "Tell Fuckface to write me."