Mysterious Skin
Director:
Gregg ArakiGuión:
Gregg ArakiCámara:
Steve GainerReparto:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michelle Trachtenberg, Brady Corbet, Jeffrey Licon, Bill Sage, Richard Riehle, Chris Mulkey (más)Sinopsis(1)
A los ocho años, Brian Lackey se despertó en el sótano de su casa, sangrando por la nariz, sin saber qué sucedió ni por qué se encontraba allí. Lo único que recuerda es que, cinco horas antes, estuvo en un partido de béisbol. Su vida no fue la misma desde el extraño incidente, ya que Brian comenzó a experimentar sensaciones de desmayo, pesadillas y un terrible miedo a la oscuridad. Diez años más tarde, Brian está convencido de que fue abducido por extraterrestres. Con el paso del tiempo, su amigo Neil, un joven del que abusaba sexualmente su entrenador de béisbol y que ahora se dedica a la prostitución con hombres mayores, traerá consigo toda la verdad. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
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It's not often that a movie hooks me like this in the first few minutes (for example, "just" the atmosphere during the opening credits was excellent). The opening is adorned with a precise directorial feel, where almost every shot has the perfect style and together creates visual-emotional perfection (I appreciated similar sophistication and complexity in this style in Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, for example). That's why I was also a bit disappointed that the initially very strong direction in the second half focused only on the story itself (undoubtedly very strong and at certain moments even drastically escalated), while the initial creativity was completely neglected. Of course, I understand, and it is abundantly clear that the inclusion of mystery elements would be highly distracting, especially in the second half, but the whole film is conceived from a certain point on as a raw and intimate drama, which does not correspond with the approach taken at the beginning, which I had liked so much. In short, the combination of mystery and pure drama bothered me a bit, despite being justified given the disturbed psyche of the main characters. But the ending is a hardcore and the overall impression is on par with some European films with similar themes in terms of its emotional experience.
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