Mysterious Skin
Such a horrible disgusting movie I could never watch again it’s a amazing movie I’ve watched a lot of queer cinema so it was about time to check out one of Arakis movies and the pain felt throughout the movie showing the effects of such a traumatic event happening to two boys and how it differently affected them one over sexualized himself and got his mind confused on what it actually was mistaking the grooming and rape as love which in the end he got raped again he had no control over the situation and was his turning point to seeing how fucked the past left him while the other completely erased most the events that happened only leaving splotches getting him to create the idea of being abducted by aliens as a coping mechanism a way to protect himself from the truth subconsciously but it kept coming back the more he grew and was looking for answers and how instead of over sexualizing himself he was more traumatized when the girl tried to rape him it brought it back he freaked out and didn’t like her anymore rightfully so. All in all handled the topics and depicted very well and I loved Eric’s character he seemed like such a cool dude