Based on a novel by the same name.
Plot:
Follows two boys who were molested by the same man growing up.
Review:
Despite the heavy theme this is not necesseraly, as you could expect, all that hard to watch. There might be a scene or two that one could define as uncomfortamble but overall it has an interesting and unexpected tone, even humorous at times. Greg Araki is the director behind this film who came out 2004.
In the 1980's a little-league baseball coach played by Bill Sage is a child molester and both Brian ( Brady Corbet ) and Neil ( Joseph Gordon Lewitt ) become his victims. At the time the two boys are only 8 years of age. We get to follow them in these younger years a short while and then we fastforward to the upper teenage/young adult age.These encounters has has two completely different impacts on these two boys, who are also friends. Neil has a positive attitude towards it and thinks of it as fine memory on how his sexual journey began. Having moved to New York, Neil has continued to have sex with men and has also become a prostitute/hustler. You do not get the impression he is any kind of victim here, despite all of this.
Brian on the other hand has repressed what happened to him and has had blackouts and noosebleeds as the only rememberance that "something happened", becomes asexual and develops the theory that he was abducted by aliens at a young age. Brian ends up staying in the town the boys grew up in and finds a fellow "abductee" in Avalynn ( Mary Lynn Rajskub ) in which he finds "companionship".
To go on further would probably spoil it. Not being a fan of Joseph Gordon Lewitt myself I was pleasantly surprised to see this film in which he truly does a good job portraying Neil. For some reason it seems like a 90's film. I dont really know why, but it does. It has that toned down quality in which the film doesn't aspire towards achieving some sort of status or appearance. Its "just" a film.
Trailer:
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3 comments:
Sounds interesting..
Awesome!
i really love this...:-)
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