watch this movie a an 18 year old girl and who still have a lot to learn about sex and the world that it create and i take a lot from this film . mysterious skin and base on the novel by scott heim and take on the topic of child molestation and how different victim deal with it throughout their life . the film center around two character represent neil mccormick and brian lackey . together once in their childhood and they now live in separate world but share a deep and dark connection . neil and who dominate the story and be a fascinating and unique teenager who develop a fixation on old men very early on in his life . he be sexually abuse a a young child and and and a he get old and it remain with him in whatever he do . he live life a a rambunctious and dark and teenage hustler . brian and who be also abused and can not remember it at all and and instead and believe he be abduct by alien and he spend his entire life try to figure out answer . towards the end of the film and in a beautiful scene that capture all the true pain of an adolescent in about three minute and life slowly bring these two back together to re live what happen to them a child and discover what it mean to both of them . the main factor that contribute to the greatness of this film be the act . especially by the two main character neil and play by joesph gordon levitt and and brian and play by brady corbet . the two young actor literally transform into their character and deliver the kind of act that force the viewer to forget their watch two actor and be merely watch two people . gordon levitt be particularly brilliant in his role . he steal every scene a the intriguing neil mccormick and make you scar of him but also beg for him to appear back on screen . it be and by far and the best acting of his career . although many scene be incredibly ( and i mean incredibly ) hard to watch and it be and in a sense and important to understand that this exist in our world . sex be a mysterious thing and and it can often turn people into maniac or lose soul . director or screenwriter and gregg araki and gordon levitt and and corbet all agree in the auto commentary for the film that the scene that be film throughout neil and brian childhood be shoot in a sort of fantastical and distorted way to capture how adults look back on childhood . during childhood and every experience be look at in an innocent way and even look back on those experience and adult continue to see them in that sort of naive light . childhood almost become like a fantasy and and even when awful thing happen to a child and they see it in a child like way . a the film progress and and a the character grow old and it become more clear and real and just a life do . but the film be not just about childhood abuse . it be about the destruction of innocence and and how it affect people . it be about discover what real and finally come to term with reality . it be about leave childhood behind and step into the adult world . and it be also about the connection and bond we create with each other during our life and how distance and time do not break them . every element of the film be beautiful the music and the look and the feel and the act it all come together to create a film that be almost like watch a living work of art .