Mysterious Skin - Under the skin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
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
Rod
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
occupation

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 With Neil not there, withdrawn Brian and the extroverted Eric become friends.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
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:

See also

Web links

Footnotes / Sources

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Mysterious Skin - Under the Skin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 770 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.celluloid-dreams.de
  3. ^ Filmstarts.de , accessed on March 11, 2011
  4. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Mysterious Skin - Under the skin. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .