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Contents:

• BOY ERASED REVIEW – DARK TALE OF A TEENAGER'S 'GAY NVERSN' ORAL
• BOY ERASED TRAILER: NILE KIDMAN AS THE MISGUID MOM OF A GAY SON WILL BREAK YOUR HEART
• STAR-STUDD FILM 'BOY ERASED' TAK ON 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'
• ‘BOY ERASED’ FILM REVIEW: NILE KIDMAN, RSELL CROWE SHE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DRAMA
• NILE KIDMAN TOOK BOY ERASED ROLE TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT GAY NVERSN THERAPY

BOY ERASED REVIEW – DARK TALE OF A TEENAGER'S 'GAY NVERSN' ORAL

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Like Chloë Grace Moretz’s Cameron and Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, Jared realis too late that he isn’t there for a fixed term (durg which he uld nceivably pretend to go along wh ) but fely, until the thori are satisfied that the gay has been prayed is an only child adored by his dad, a lay preacher wh a r alership, and his sweet-natured, tradnal mom. His fellow trae – the old borstal phrase mak a certa sense – clu the agonised Jon (a rather broad performance om award-wng director Xavier Dolan) and the olly cynil Gary (played by Atralian sgg star and YouTuber Troye Sivan, who suppli the soundtrack song Revelatn) story pans out ways that are more or ls predictable, and the tradnal twist the tale about what homophob are supprsg wh themselv is supplied the closg creds. At all events, shows how homophobia creat crlo, fearful people vulnerable to the snake-oil n trick of “nversn”.

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BOY ERASED TRAILER: NILE KIDMAN AS THE MISGUID MOM OF A GAY SON WILL BREAK YOUR HEART

BOY ERASED is a te memoir wrten by Gerrad Conley about his experienc wh nversn therapy - that church oriented isolatn of gay men and women tent on rtorg them back om their sful ways and Satan's fluence. As adapted for the screen by Joel Edgerton (who also directs an plays a very proment role of the man who is charge of the nversn school), the film is tense and revelatory about a near cult-like 'bs' of rrectg the 'disease of homosexualy. While there, Jared to nflict wh s lear Victor Syk (Joel Edgerton) and begs his journey to fdg his own voice and acceptg his te ssns the therapy program domate the film, wh flashbacks of Jared llege and his rare gay actg out episos wh Henry (Joe Alwyn) and Xavier (Theodore Peller), misnsted by vasive rearch by Syk and his entourage.

The fellow gay people are very well portrayed by Troye Sivan, Brton Sear, Ey Hkler among others and one of the more realistic - about LGBTQ issu - characters, a Dr. Jared is neteen years old when his parents learn about his homosexualy. Gay nversn not OK.

The son of an Arkansas preacher go to gay nversn therapy, first willgly, then reluctantly. This is very much an advocy film agast gay nversn, and has the star power to get to a general dience.

STAR-STUDD FILM 'BOY ERASED' TAK ON 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY'

As a parent of a gay man, I believe that this is a mt-see film for all parents. It's a stark remr of what was once wily believed (and sadly still is by too many) about homosexualy. As a gay man myself, this movie ma me sooooo angry.

Here he stars as Jared Eamons, a llege aged young man stgglg wh the ner turmoil that acpani beg a gay man raised by a Pastor-dad the heart of the Bible belt. One boy is beaten wh bibl by his fay an effort to drive out the mons of homosexualy (nope, that's not a joke).

‘BOY ERASED’ FILM REVIEW: NILE KIDMAN, RSELL CROWE SHE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DRAMA

I feel as if I have watched and summarised several films over the past 12 months that have an element of ethil and relig issu the foc is on the apparent te life chronicle of a 19 year old teenage boy, Jared Eamons and son of a Baptist pastor Marshall Eamons (a portly Rsell Crowe) disverg his sexualy and havg to nont the strict relig beliefs of his parents wh his mother, Nancy Eamons played by Nile pastor seeks advice om his elrs and sends his son for some kd of nversn treatment at a relig centre to try and "cure" him of his homosexual sexual here I don't want to pass judgment on any relig beliefs however I didn't know this was wily gog st all give good performanc. The son of Southern Baptist preacher and r salman Marshall (Rsell Crowe) and his wife Nancy (Nile Kidman), Jared is ially lookg forward to the program, keen to be purged of his homosexual impuls. As he settl , the backstory of how he me to be signed up unfolds achronologilly, tercuttg his creasgly unsettlg time at Love Actn wh cints such as his first homosexual experience at llege, wh his nng-partner, Henry (Joe Alwyn); how his parents found out about his homosexualy; and Marshall's cisn to send him to therapy.

Offerg a wdow to the world of nversn therapy, the film shows how Love Actn preach such thgs as "you nnot be born homosexual. Granted, this is Jared's story, not Syk's, but that don't change the fact that more rmatn on his background would have been very 's also somewhat problematic that the only homosexual sexual activy picted the film is a rape. However, 's unsettlg that Edgerton never shows any nsensual and pleasurable homosexual ntent.

NILE KIDMAN TOOK BOY ERASED ROLE TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT GAY NVERSN THERAPY

But remas problematic that the only time we see a homosexual character actg on their impuls is a rape scene.