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Mysterious Skin is California filmmaker Gregg Araki's eighth film. Debuting at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 (however it did not see a semi-wide release until 2005), it is based on a 1996 novel by Scott Heim and concerns the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two boys from Hutchinson, Kansas, a city of about 40,000 people.
Synopsis
One of the boys, played by Brady Corbet of Thunderbirds, blanks out the entire experience and becomes convinced he was abducted by aliens. The other, Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun and Chase Ellison, feels he was specially chosen by the offender, a Little League coach, whose "love" became the highlight of his young life. He subsequently becomes a teen-age hustler, while the other boy feels asexual and is given to nosebleeds and fainting spells. Thus, one cannot remember; the other cannot forget. Both eventually find a kind of balance in the other's shared experience.
Controversy in Australia
The movie has been the subject of some controversy in Australia, where a far-right national activist group called the Australian Family Association requested a review of its classification, seeking to have the film outlawed due to its depiction of child sexual abuse. Some have gone as far as saying that the movie could be used as an "instruction manual" for would-be child sex abusers. The six-member Classification Review Board voted four-to-two in favour of maintaining an R rating.
See also
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2005 films | Drama films | Films based on fiction books | Novels with a pedophile theme | LGBT-related films
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