Adapted om the novel of the same name, Myster Sk prents a tale of homosexual sire and the dangers which faced young gay men the late 1980s. Director Greg Araki creat a film followg the parallel liv of two boys Kansas, Neil McCormick played by Joseph Gordon-Levt and Brian Lackey, played by Brady Corbet.…
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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘MYSTER SK’
* is neil gay mysterious skin *
“Myster Sk” is relevant to the queer muny for more than the obv reason – that one of the two male leads is gay, along wh his iend Eric.
Michael (he/him) is the gay Wrer & Content Manager behd Sce g out as a teenager, Michael has veloped a fascatn for Queer films. There are a few ancillary elements the film that suggt the abe has damaged the boys—Neil’s attractn to horror films, Neil’s rape near the end of the film, and his nial of the severy of any of the events—but the odd thg, pecially for a film by a gay filmmaker, is that the implied repercsns of the child abe are activi associated wh a sexually active gay youth. If anythg the pictns of the johns New York e off as dictments of anonymo gay sex.
Narratively the rape might serve as an emotnal punctuatn of the trma ed by Coach, but pats gay life negatively. Like most young boys Neil enjoys junk food and vio gam, but unlike many boys at that age he is pletely open, fortable and nfint about his gay sexualy.