#mysterious skin
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michelle Trachtenberg in Mysterious Skin (2005)
“I’m drunk……I’ve never been drunk in my life”
“I’m corrupting you, at last”
- Mysterious Skin (2004)
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directed by gregg araki
you’re not rid of me
Kino de Gigolo (or Sinema for the Modern Streetwalker)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
i don’t remember much of this film, i just remember it being a Greg Araki film that didn’t shit me to tears and it had a pretty damn strong impact. The Living End was a great concept, but it was miserable (in that pretentious b&w 90s indie gay road movie way), Totally Fucked Up, Nowhere and the Doom Generation were remarkably better but burdened by Araki Typical trade marks of the shoulder-length haired whiny alterna-sissy lusting after the cute sexually adventurous but in-denial mascu-fag
this is one of the most realistic presentations of a male hooker (once you adjusted seeing that kid from 3rd Rock From The Sun as a gay prostitute) and also answered a question i never even considered before: what does a paedophile do when he is a bottom?
well, inMysterious Skin you find out
“Perhaps Cain’s epic is a prime example of the sort of necropastoral that McSweeney has described. Perhaps it is a poem thoughtfully spreading its poisons (i.e. ‘this is my screw being yanked from decades of paint / this is my poisonous poem which lives in the lead’). The long, intricate after, the microbial livelihood that makes a necropastoral possible. Kids of the Black Hole feels like something we shouldn’t be allowed to read. There were times when I felt as if I couldn’t continue reading. It feels like a ‘homestead beyond the clouds.’ It feels like something ‘shocked back to life.’ I honestly haven’t felt this affected by a book—by a poem—in a very long time.”
Read my entire review of Cain’s debut book [here]
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