MYSTERIOUS SKIN ****

Mysterious Skin tells how two sexually abused children strive to exist at the time to become young adults. Brian (Brady Corbet) has developed a psychogenic amnesia in order to preserve the horror yet it seeks to elucidate. He knows he has known two evenings of black holes that have troubled and never leaves him a nosebleed. It's more complicated for Neil (Joseph Gordon- Levitt), where Araki focuses most attention, since it young lost in the redneck and not too exceeded expectations (he managed to flee to New York but know that it will not fly more), has a very precise memories of the experience... and did not return to find nothing to match the feeling of being awake too fast without being able to be satisfied.

In both cases, a childhood and life was stolen. For Brian, it is an eternal punishment he did not deserve. He is forced to contemplate their symptoms or have his crushed by viewing the acts forced consciousness. For Neil, nothing can ever be the taste of this... paradise lost. It is monstrous, shameful. It should be a victim, there is one, but he regrets above all, this is the secret love affair that would have dreamed cause. Who came to him for initiating and exceed his fantasies. What is left to be desired after ecstasy consumed ... Since then, he prostitute for old gentlemen, it appears casual, cynical and waterproof.

Araki addresses a voluntary extremely sensitive subject (pedophilia and its impact) so, bold, delicate too. There is (and this is rare) no moral reading, but a complete perspective. Mysterious Skin does nothing passes in front, it looks and it shows not say anything else. The film seems indifferent to taboos, therefore it exceeds. Its predator is primarily a selfish spinning a story of love irresponsible. This is not the vice that grows, but the desire and painful, a sincere affection, not interested or volatile. The connivance of Neil and commitment are still disturbing.

Gref Araki is an independent filmmaker based in a high color representation of homosexuality. This book by the adaptation of a book under the same name, who upset and he has decided to run with solid experience and '' at the end of a period '' trash and insolent where the feelings, intimacy, despair, were not embodied so much of accuracy and smoothness. There is no less reckless either. The happy contrast to this approach missionary is lyrical and dreamlike digressions peppering the film. This focus makes it even more misleading, however this style, this intense purity of Mysterious Skin are a meditation on the rejection and nostalgia for innocence heartbreaking. The climate is both perfectly realistic (perfect descriptions of daily life, perfect capture the social dimension not yet go to chronic) and totally psychic. A kind of sensuous mysticism handles captivated us. An odious reality appears to us and translated in the wake of the deep meaning prohibited sympathies (especially that of Neil !) or ridiculous condition of adult face our secrets, our burdens and dreams.