myterious skin be a movie that be perfect in that it capture you in it storytelling and in the end drop it message on you in a very subtle way . honestly if you do not have a tear in your eye in this powerful end with it unbelievably intense music by sigur ro you must be dead inside . the movie revolt of the grow up of two kid and neil and brian and whom we follow from their childhood to their 19th year . both play in the same baseball team a kid but do not meet again until the end of the film . neil get into sexual play with his baseball trainer and turn a gay hustler while brian see ufos and try to find out about the moment his mind black out . of course thinking of an alien abduction . the movie basically deal with brian try to unfold the mystery of his blank out memory and meet a strange ufo girl with similar experience while neil be grow up into more and more sexual obsess gay life . the way the story be tell be just interesting and the acting be incredibly believable from all involve but most of all by joseph gordon levitt and brady corbet a the grown up neil and brian . the movie have a strange calmness with some beautiful scene . except for one particular scene ( and have see irreversible this be tame ) i do not understand what people find shock about mysterious skin . the whole way of neil grow up doesn not seem dramatic . it just the small thing hide behind his act ( like his best friend say he have a black hole where others have a heart ) and his distant stare when be hug . his realization fall close to that of brian and the way they deal with their past seem so real one can relate to it . i never find myself be so touch by the subject of child abuse especially because of the calmness and the final line neil delivers with brian on his lap and fading into the beautiful piano melody of sigur ro samskeyti . mysterious skin doesn not hammer it message into the viewer head but rather make him think about the fact that a small moment in the early year can change a life forever and nothing can be undone again . this be a wonderful movie that lead straight into a finale with fall curtain and stand ovation . finally after so many movie who let you down in the end . all thumb up .