Mysterious Skin Comments

  • Lottie 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    The film does not blindly fix the focus on the subject of child sexual assault, but extends it to see how the heavy past affects a person's direction. It does not involve extroverted revenge, but tries to explore how to heal the inner wounds and how to deal with oneself. The two teenagers returned to the scene of the incident ten years later, warmed each other with hugs, looked straight at the past, and reached a reconciliation. Even if the road is obstructive and...

  • Summer 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    Really have the courage to examine the subject matter and compare the middle finger's blurry work. My innocence is the croaking sound of colorful soap bubbles...

  • Daniela 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    You don't know how much harm you will cause to an eight-year-old...

  • Hilton 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    Neil's forgetting paid the price, but the pain and suffering that Brian experienced in the moment of reminiscing was another way to preserve memory. Do you forget it altogether, or remember it forever and treat it as a good thing to soothe the pain in your heart? In the end, will everything disappear in that...

  • Avis 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    A few years later, the difference is that one is living in the world of his fantasy, and the other is living in the cruel reality; the same is that both of them are evading and can't get out of the original shadow. Finally, when the two injured souls are leaning against each other and healing their inner wounds together, they can quietly feel the beauty of music....

  • Elenora 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    Two children from a single parent family who lacked a fatherly love were sexually assaulted by a baseball coach, Neil embarked on a deformed growth path, and Brian was entangled in countless horrible and fuzzy memories. The scenes, lines, and plot of the movie made people feel very uncomfortable after watching, especially the blue and gloomy lights of the baseball coach's home made people shudder. The director's narrative, editing, and soundtrack are so perfect that people can't help feeling...

  • Aditya 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    This kid~~The absolute European version of Yosuke...

  • Kareem 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    He refuses, he accepts; he creates illusions, he glorifies the recollection. We all have to grow up from childhood experiences. Life is a real tragedy. We have to grow up in deep pain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance was...

  • Adelbert 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    The way people resist adversity. Depraved. pretend. The former reminds you of vicious memory. In the latter, memory helps deceive...

  • Olin 2022-01-04 08:01:22

    The psychedelic music atmosphere is graceful with sadness, but also reveals a strong romance of death, ecstasy... The director stated the aesthetics of the film: "Mysterious Skin has an extremely dark theme, so visually it is a beautiful A full-bodied movie. I hope to create a gorgeous, almost gleaming world through poetic statements similar to those in novels. There, obscure love affairs are...

Extended Reading
  • Marcelina 2022-03-24 09:02:21

    It's not a movie review, it's an essay

    For the past, is it forgetting to escape it, or degenerate to cover it?
        This is a somewhat dark story, and the sensitive topics involved can be seen from the plot introduction. Shooting, especially the beginning part, made me feel a little bit of a stream of consciousness.

        Neil is the soul...

  • Idella 2022-03-21 09:02:19

    cannot be erased

    The soundtrack of the film is composed by the amazing Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie, with names like Ride, Slowdive, Sigur Ros that excite shoegazing, post-rock lovers, and the picture, which is accompanied by powerful white noise architecture The feedback that comes out is straight into my heart!...s

Mysterious Skin quotes

  • Wendy: You'd better be careful.

    Eric: Of what?

    Wendy: I'm serious, Eric. You're not in Modesto anymore. I see the way you look at him.

    Eric: He's so beautiful. I can't help it. He's like a god.

    Wendy: You don't have to tell me, I was infatuated with him too once. But I know all Neil's secrets and there's shit there you don't even want to know about. Trust me. Once I'm gone, you'll be all Neil has and you have to understand one thing. Where normal people have a heart, Neil McCormick has a bottomless black hole. And if you don't watch out, you can fall in and get lost forever.

  • Avalyn Friesen: [Walks through pasture with flashlight toward dead calf] Farmers have been finding mutilated cattle like this around here for years. I told "World of Mystery," but they conveniently edited it out.

    [Kneels]

    Avalyn Friesen: Daddy says it's just a bunch of Satan worshippers, going around, chopping up cows. Ha! C'mere - let me see your hand.

    [Guides BRIAN's hand to wound on calf]

    Avalyn Friesen: Feel that? It's the sex organs. They're gone. The aliens, they experiment on cattle, because the poor things are so defenseless. Us, on the other hand - they can't kill us. They just leave behind the hidden memories of what they've done. Which in a way is almost worse. Notice anything else strange? There's no blood. They took that, too.