Mysterious Skin (2004)

WARNING: THIS MOVIE AND DISCUSSION REFERENCE CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

Folks, we’re in the final week of MOVIES ARE GAY and if you thought we were gonna settle on Rainer Werner Fassbinder for our sad boy fix then you were very much mistaken. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (JoGoLe as his closest movie reviewer friends call him.) really went hard in the 2000s, and this movie he starred in alongside Brady Corbet was perhaps one of the starkest examples of the results of childhood sexual abuse ever put to film. One of JoGoLe’s best performances here in Gregg Araki’s 2004 flick “Mysterious Skin”. It’s fucked up. NGL. We promise to end MOVIES ARE GAY on a more upbeat note but this movie is incredibly sincere for its intensely descriptive subject matter. Unique and challenging. It’s worth your time if you can handle it. Hear us tell you all about it.

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