Mysterious Skin - Under the skin
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German title | Mysterious Skin - Under the skin |
Original title | Mysterious skin |
Country of production | USA , Netherlands |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2004 |
length | 105 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 18 |
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Director | Gregg Araki |
script | Gregg Araki |
production | Gregg Araki, Wouter Barendrecht , Jeffrey Levy-Hinte |
music | Harold Budd , Robin Guthrie |
camera | Steve Gainer |
cut | Gregg Araki |
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Mysterious Skin is a US - Dutch film about two boys who were sexually abused as children . Their parallel development from 8 to 19 years is shown. The film is largely set in the small town of Hutchinson, Kansas and is based on the novel of the same name by Scott Heim .
action
Eight-year-old Brian Lackey finds himself in the basement one evening with a bleeding nose. He no longer knows what happened to him. His mother believes he was injured in baseball and takes him off the team. Brian suffered from fainting dropouts in the years that followed, and after seeing a report on TV as a teenager about UFO abductions , he firmly believes that he is being abducted by a UFO has been.
The second central character in the film is Neil McCormick: Neil is also eight years old at the beginning of the film and is also a member of the baseball team. Neil knew he was gay as a child and fell in love with the pedophile coach when he joined the baseball team . Neil abused Neil all summer long. Neil is used as bait to abuse other boys.
After the first time jump in the film, Neil is 15 years old and starts working as a hustler . Three years later, to the chagrin of his friend Eric, who fell in love with him, he was still working as a prostitute. He later decides to leave the small town to follow his best friend Wendy to New York City . After Eric and his mother take him to the bus, they find Brian in front of the house, who uses his memories to see Neil as the only person who can possibly solve the events of his childhood. With Neil not there, withdrawn Brian and the extroverted Eric become friends.
Neil continues to work as a prostitute in New York, but quickly realizes that many things are different in the big city. However, Wendy is not particularly happy with this and tries to persuade him to find another job. Wendy gets Neil a job in a fast food restaurant. One day he is approached by a man on his way home who wants to pay Neil to be a hustler. Neil agrees, but is brutally raped and mistreated by this suitor. The next day, Neil makes his Christmas visit home. There he meets Brian. Brian and Neil go to the trainer's house, but he no longer lives there. In the living room, Brian finally finds out what really happened: The coach had sexually abused both boys at the time.
Reviews
In general, the film received mostly good reviews. Celluloid-Dreams.de wrote: “ Gregg Araki has shown courage and dared to tackle the extremely daring topics of pedophilia and prostitution. Astonishingly sensitive and light-footed, 'Mysterious Skin' glides through its 101 minutes running time with the help of 2 completely different stories, but without remaining too harmless. This very honest, small masterpiece is absolutely worth seeing just because of its flawless staging and the excellent ensemble. "
Björn Becher wrote on Filmstarts.de: “ With 'Mysterious Skin' Gregg Araki also managed to keep making enemies in conservative American circles. The blunt language and presentation of its content was sufficient for this. The accusation that he has been accused of alleviating pedophilia with his film is completely ineffective. Because there are only a few films that so impressively, emphatically and terrifyingly show the cruelty of this crime. The special thing is the fresh and unexpected approach of the director, who concentrates completely on the point of view of the victims and almost completely fades out the point of view of the 'adults' and goes further than most comparable films. "
synchronization
The film was set to music at Think Global Synchron in Berlin . Boris Tessmann wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Neil | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Ricardo Richter |
Brian | Brady Corbet | Tino Hillebrand |
Eric | Jeffrey Licon | Konrad Bösherz |
Avalyn Frisians | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Heike Beeck |
Mrs. McCormick | Elisabeth Shue | Arianne Borbach |
Coach | Bill Sage | Boris Tessmann |
Wendy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Magdalena Turba |
Alfred | David Lee Smith | |
Mr. Lackey | Chris Mulkey | Gerald Paradise |
Mrs. Lackey | Lisa Long | |
Charlie | Richard Riehle | Roland Hemmo |
Deborah | Kelly Kruger | |
Zeke | Billy Drago | Jan Spitzer |
Prices
Mysterious Skin was nominated for a total of nine times, but only got four in the end:
- the Jury Award of the Bergen International Film Festival (for Gregg Araki)
- the MovieZone Award of the Rotterdam International Film Festival (for Gregg Araki)
- twice the Golden Space Needle Award of the Seattle International Film Festival (once each for Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Best Actor and Gregg Araki as Best Director ).
See also
Web links
- Mysterious Skin - Under the skin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
Footnotes / Sources
- ↑ Release certificate for Mysterious Skin - Under the Skin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 770 V / DVD).
- ↑ Celluloid-Dreams.DE ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 11, 2011
- ^ Filmstarts.de , accessed on March 11, 2011
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Mysterious Skin - Under the skin. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .