You may call me movie ambassador, I'm pleasure to heard that! lol
Whenever I have free time, I would randomly pick some movies,especially those movies are not reveal in Malaysia, I would always take a try!
Of course there are many movies I'd watched in this month (roughly from July to August), but I'm only picked one, Mysterious Skin for my new post, which is deeply engraved in my mind, pathetic
Ok, let's start the synopsis.
This story is about two boys (only 8 years old) who homo-sexually abused by their baseball coach. One of the boys, Neil grown up as a dissipated teenage, who possesses destructive behavior and part time as a gay prostitute. Neil was believed that he perceived the real love from his coach in his early-age sex. Thus, his curiosity of developing sexuality and desire of love has leads him heading to New York city. Through the long hardship path, Neil's invulnerable dignity was devastated by a man from Brighton Beach who brutally rapes and beats him. (This scene was censored, but I watch this cruel scene again in YouTube, it was very terrified.) Neil was leave with bloody and broken from outside and inside, he was breakdown in washroom and feels his dignity as a man was totally being insulted.
Another nerd boy, Brian, who psychologically suffer in emotional trauma being sexually abused that cause amnesia of four hours in his past with bleeding nose. He believes that within "unmemorable" four hours was abducted by alien. Therefore, Brian curious to seek back what really happen in past during that particular 4 hours, isn't that UFO existed in this planet! Until Brian's self-discovering has leads him to meet Neil, which unlock the dark secret of his past. Brian was reluctantly accepts the dark-side of his past until Neil had disclosed the harsh reality torn. In the end, the unbearable past memories was a fact that engraved in depth of their heart. They have no choice, or turn back the clock, only endure, weeping away and acknowledge the truth, be brave to face next chapter of their life.
It was a pretty sad movie, especially with the ending where both of them crying on couch, the scene was dimly get dark and darker. It is portraying a miserable and pathetic of their dark past. Their past is a shade of sculpture, which never easily vanished and planted in their heart in the rest of life. However, for my personal view, both of them have the choice to live their life with bright of hope even though their past was such terrified. For Neil, who finally found the clear direction of his newborn life as experienced and learned along the harsh way that he through. He is courage to faced his past, accept the way he was and learned from fall and get up gain. On the other hand, Brian was living a self fabricated lie from his past, until he reveals the reality, he will bravely faces it.
