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Title: Intense
Review: After watching this film you will likely feel emotionally distraught and exhausted. Mysterious Skin is intense, brutal, and will deepen your understanding of the emotional and mental aftereffect of enduring an experience or several episodes of sexual abuse and how it can influence later behavior.Joseph Gordon-Levitt is excellent as the victim with the only ability to cope is to be emotionally stunted while leading a promiscuous lifestyle. Brady Corbet is spot on as the asexual and delusional victim who is socially awkward. I appreciate the fact that the sexual abuse was shown or explicitly discussed and was not sugarcoated. Some scenes are heart-wrenching and uncomfortable to watch but this is one of the most realistic portrayals of sexual abuse survivors I've ever seen.
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