Coming soon to a theatre near you... (Well, in New York anyway...)

[lsanderson]

Seeking Adult Answers in Two Scarred Boyhoods
By A. O. SCOTT

"Based on a novel by Scott Heim, Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" tells the parallel stories of two boys growing up in a small town in Kansas in the 1980's and early 90's. One, Brian Lackey (played first by George Webster and then in his late teenage years by Brady Corbet), believes that the nightmares and nosebleeds that afflict him throughout adolescence are results of an alien abduction that occurred in the summer of 1981, when he was a shy, frail 8-year-old. That same summer, Neil McCormick (Chase Ellison, and later, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was molested by his Little League coach (Bill Sage)."

Comments

spoiler?

[rvrjoe775.livejournal.com]

I believe the molestation was the big reveal at the end of the novel, so it's strange to me that all the press I've seen about the film are playing that up as the key element of the story. I wonder how much the story has changed in translation to a different media.

Re: spoiler?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I theoretically e-mailed the review to you. The reviewer said it was one of the best movies of the year... granted, it's only May...