Mysterious Skin (Deluxe Unrated Director's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Mysterious Skin (Deluxe Unrated Director's Edition)
Movie Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is stunning. The acting is suburb and the characters are well-developed and believable. The story does take some disturbing turns, and the realistic portrayal of a sensitive subject (childhood sexual abuse) is hard to watch at times (as is some of the stuff that happens later in the movie). But overall this is a stunningly dramatic movie that really makes you think. Despite the tough subject matter, there are also some fun and sexy scenes that help make the movie great viewing! Buy this today.Movie Review: Mysterious Skin
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on an acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Araki's sensitive, disturbing drama examines the corrosive effects of early childhood trauma on two youths, bookish Brian and vacant, lovelorn Neil. While the subject matter is certainly disquieting, Araki handles the material with sensitivity, injecting a feeling of hope. Corbet and Levitt (from TV's "Third Rock From the Sun") are strikingly credible in demanding roles, while supporting players Elisabeth Shue (as Neil's loose, permissive mother), Michelle Trachtenburg (as his New York friend, Wendy), and Bill Sage (as the Coach) turn in exemplary work. "Skin" digs deep and burrows right into your heart.Movie Review: Does Not Compare To The Book
Summary: 4 Stars
Although both were sensationally heartwrenching, the book and the film seem to be on two completely different fields of excellence. I read the novel and I was astounded, drawn in, even inspired to begin writing myself.
The movie was satisfying but only when you factor out the prosepect of it having the potential to be better. It could have been just as phenominal as the book if only it were slightly truer to it.
I wasn't completely dissapointed though. The actors threw on the roles with impressive grace, slipping them over themselves as if they were truly their own new mysterious skins. The direction is another thing I'd like to give a credit to, breathtaking and well-suited with the film's pace.
Over all Mysterious Skin is a film worth recognition, both painful and thought provoking, but it will never instill the lasting impression the book has.
Movie Review: Sensational!
Summary: 5 Stars
Mysterious Skin- Sensational, controversial, intense... so many words can describe this movie by Gregg Araki based on the novel by Scott Heim. The first time I watched this film, I was blown away by the display of raw emotions of the two young lead actors- Joseph Gordon Levitt (who plays young hustler Neil McCormick) and Brady Corbet ( who plays Brian, the shy teen who believes he was abducted by Aliens). There is a special, albeit disturbing connection between the two young men and the film captures the journey towards their reunion and the ultimate discovery of that particular event that connects them.
Gordon-Levitt delivers one of the most unforgettable performances I have seen in recent years. As a young hustler, his dark and secret past, allowed him to mask his emotions, and live life as if what he does for a living is something ordinary and mundane. With his eyes showing off nothing, and staring blankly into space, he goes from one job to another just as if he's replacing parts in an automotive shop or sorting out letters in a mail room. There are certain sex scenes that are graphic and disturbing, but it captures the world of Neil- dark, violent, uncaring... It's the only way he can go on- the absence of emotion and with it, the inability to truly love the people who care for him. Corbet also delivered an amazing performance, as Brian he is the shy, trusting and unassuming young man who is so obsessed with recording his periodic episodes of forgetfulness, that he opens himself to anyone who cared enough to listen...
There is a certain fulfillment in watching this movie and see it towards its end, it opens up a world that is there, perhaps a world apart from your own, but it's there and you may need or may not need to protect yourself to discover it.
Movie Review: Intense and unsettling film
Summary: 5 Stars
Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Brian (Brady Corbet) played on the same Little League team when they were eight, but they grew into very different young men. Neil is a burned out, soulless prostitute, while Brian is shy and confused and obsessed with UFOs. When they meet again as adults, Neil reveals a terrible truth about that summer they played baseball.
This movie is a shocking look at pedophilia and its effects on the lives of two children. It is at times difficult to watch, but the actors' performances are flawless. Gordon-Levitt is stunning as the young hustler who lives a zombie-like existence, and Corbet is appealing as the naive boy who thinks he was abducted by aliens. The story is cleverly constructed; parallel vignettes from each boy's life trace their development until they are reunited and the truth brings them a degree of peace. This unforgettable film is brutal and very, very sad.