Inside Look at Conversion Therapy
“Boy Erased” is based on the true story of a young man whose parents placed him in a conversion therapy center to “cure” his homosexuality. Well-meaning and following their Christian belief that homosexuality is a sinful choice, the parents decide that structured exercises will return the boy to normal.<br /><br />Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) is outed at age 19 to his parents, Marshall (Russell Crowe) and Nancy (Nicole Kidman). They confront Jared and he ultimately and with great shame admits that he does think about men in a sexual way.<br /><br />In addition to being the owner of a car dealership, Marshall is the local pastor. He consults the church elders and he and Nancy follow their guidance to send Jared to a conversion therapy center called Love In Action. Jared is determined to cooperate fully to rid himself of his “sin.”<br /><br />The center is far from their home, so Nancy accompanies Jared and stays with him in a motel nearby while he’s undergoing treatment. She is not permitted inside the facility. The director of the center, Victor Sykes (Joel Edgerton, who also directs the movie), welcomes Jared into the group and explains the rules. These include no cell phones, no outside reading, and no revealing what goes on within the center. This makes Jared close-mouthed when he and Nancy have dinner each evening.<br /><br />The center’s techniques include a strict dress code, religious penance, inspirational lectures, construction of a family tree noting all who might be sinners, and role-playing induced anger exercises. Jared becomes consumed with inner conflict — he wants to be cured but sees more and more abuses and feels the center is trying to drain him of who he is.<br /><br />The movie attempts to be objective in its treatment of the family. The parents are portrayed as caring people whose religious convictions must be re-evaluated in terms of their own son. They are shocked by his revelation but rather than revile him and throw him out, they look for a solution to what they believe is a serious problem of spiritual weakness and sinful choice. Jared acquiesces because he loves his parents, is himself religious, and doesn’t want his homosexuality to shatter the family.<br /><br />The program is part boot camp, part rehab center, part detention center. The fact that Sykes seems to believe so strongly in what he’s doing is both unsettling and chilling.<br /><br />Jared’s therapy mates at Love In Action (Troye Sivan, Jesse LaTourette, Britton Sear) give us a look at how others are affected by the program. Some fake compliance to get out quickly and move on with their life, others become irreparably damaged. As Jared takes all of this in, he comes to see the center as something very different from what the brochures advertise.<br /><br />Hedges, who was in “Manchester by the Sea,” “Lady Bird,” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” conveys a combination of guilt, hurt, confusion, and sadness as Jared. Much of his performance is in observing, reacting, and thinking about what he sees. His downcast look, hunched shoulders, and mournful eyes are not the indications of a kid getting healthier.<br /><br />Director Edgerton shows how the demonization of a particular human trait and fraudulent promises of a cure for it roil a single family, and how detrimental it can be for self-esteem, family relationships, and mental health. Currently, fourteen states and 47 counties, municipalities, and communities in the United States have banned sexual orientation change efforts (conversion therapy) for minors.<br /><br />Rated R, “Boy Erased” is an adaptation of the memoir by Garrard Conley of his teenage years in Arkansas when his Baptist parents sent him away for gay conversion therapy. On-screen titles at the end of the movie tell what happened to the people portrayed in the film.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Blu-ray release include 8 deleted and extended scenes, two featurettes profiling the Eamons characters, and a brief look at director Joel Edgerton’s dual role as actor and director.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe). His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader (Joel Edgerton) and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self..