Review: Mysterious Skin (2004)

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He’s just got to be a sex-case with that moustache

A ground breaking film that explores two alternative journeys of young men dealing with sexual abuse by their little league coach as children.

Neil ends up as a teenage hustler, he always believed the abuse to be consensual as he had gay feelings from a young age. He believes the abuse made him “special”. As a teenager he no longer feels special and has unsafe encounters with older men somehow acting out the abuse over and over again.

Brian believes he was abducted by aliens because his family once saw a UFO. Until his nightmares begin to take on greater clarity he has visions of aliens violating his body.

The two finally meet and sitting in the house where Brian was first abused as a child they unravel the deeply hidden memories of the abuse.

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