Mysterious Skin

I’ve been doing this thing lately where I’ve been rewatching movies I’ve given a high rating to like a day or two after watching them initially so I rewatched mysterious skin tonight.  on rewatch, you can definitely feel how heavy the movie is but I also came to realize how controlled in a way it felt.  first watch felt very raw, but on rewatch it was more noticeable how intentionally the movie is structured around Neil and Brian more than I had noticed on the last watch. the contrast between the two and how they deal with shared trauma felt more clear, one avoiding it completely while the other is trying to understand it, and this in total slightly changed how I saw the film play out.  Joseph Gordon levitt’s performance again was unreal and he did an amazing job.  movie definitely was better second watch and I think just knowing what’s going to happen next also made everything hit harder in a way.