I had a chance to check out Gregg Araki's newest film, Mysterious Skin, and I found it extraordinary. It tracks the lives of two boys after a summer in which they were both molested as children. One (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) grows up to become a hustler and the other (Brady Corbet) becomes a recluse obsessed with UFOs. Rather than the usual brutal, finger-pointing approach, this film takes a moment to delicately find the pain in the subject matter, and even manages a couple of moments of heartbreaking beauty. (The film co-stars Elizabeth Shue and Michelle Trachtenberg.) The Christian critics, however, have reviewed the film and claim that it potentially violates child pornography laws. This is ridiculous, of course, and my friend Lewis Tice at TLA Releasing has gone on record to defend the work. I hope this flack doesn't result in the movie being pulled from release, because it truly deserves to be seen. It only goes to prove my theory that the Religious Right never actually watches the films it complains about.
| :: posted by Jeffrey M. Anderson, 5/12/2005 | Comments (0) Links to this post |
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