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• BOY ERASED REVIEW – DARK TALE OF A TEENAGER'S 'GAY NVERSN' ORAL
• REVIEW: BOY ERASED IS FELY ACTED, BUT FAIARJOEL EDGERTON’S FILM SPORTS GREAT PERFORMANC, BUT LEFT WANTG MORE.BY RICHARD LAWSONSEPTEMBER 1, 2018COURTY OF FOC FEATURSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETEXTG WH A LLEAGUE AFTER THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE GAY NVERSN DRAMA BOY ERASED HERE TELLURI, I TOLD HIM I LIKED THE MOVIE, BUT THAT DIDN’T TELL ME ANYTHG NEW. WHICH I IMMEDIATELY REALIZED WASN’T REALLY FAIR; WHO R, REALLY, WHAT TELLS ME—A LONG-OUT GAY ADULT DOG FE—PERSONALLY? JOEL EDGERTON’S EARNT, SOLIDLY MA FILM WILL BE MOST EFFECTIVE ON, AND MAYBE NECSARY FOR, THOSE IMMEDIATELY SUFFERG UNR THE CSH OF ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY, AND THOSE PERPETRATG . SCREENG THE FILM TO THE TELLURI DIENCE IS A B OF A PREACH TO THE CHOIR, SO TO SPEAK—SO I HOPE THE FILM WILL SOMEHOW REACH THOSE MIGHT TLY RATTLE, FORT, AND CHANGE.ADAPTED OM GARRAD CONLEY’S BT-SELLG MEMOIR, BOY ERASED FOLLOWS 18-YEAR-OLD JARED, SON OF A PASTOR, AS HE ENTERS AN OUTPATIENT NVERSN-THERAPY PROGRAM PERVERSELY LLED LOVE ACTN. JARED IS PLAYED BY LUS HEDG, A ROURCEFUL YOUNG ACTOR WHO HERE LOT THE QUIET NFN, YEARNG, AND PA OF THE CLOSET. ALL THAT TRMA IS PECIALLY ACUTE GIVEN JARED’S TENSELY RELIG UPBRGG, HIS LOVG AND (THEY THK) WELL-MEANG PARENTS FURTHER POUNDG HIS ANGUISH THEIR ATTEMPTS TO HELP HIM. THE PARENTS ARE PLAYED SENSIVELY AND WHOUT BIBLE-BELT RITURE BY A WET-EYED RSELL CROWE AND AN ORNATELY BEWIGGED NILE KIDMAN. THIS FE TR WORK RICH NCERT, ELEVATG THE FAIRLY STANDARD-ISSUE MATERIAL TO POIGNANT HIGHS.THERE’S STRONG ACTG WH THE LOVE ACTN FACILY AS WELL, PECIALLY OM EDGERTON HIMSELF, WHO PERFECTLY LIBRAT THE MENTOR-MONSTER DUALY OF THE PROGRAM’S DIRECTOR. THE SUPPORTG ST IS ECLECTIC—ROCKER FLEA, NASCENT GAY POP IN TROYE SIVAN (WHO HAS A LOVELY ORIGAL SONG THE FILM), AND QUéBéIS ACTOR-DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN ALL APPEAR—AND EACH NTRIBUT A POWERFUL OR PERSUASIVE MOMENT OR TWO. EDGERTON HAS BUILT HIS MOVIE WELL, A KD OF PRTIGE VERSN OF THE ISSU DRAMAS WE ED TO ASSOCIATE WH BASIC BLE.BOY ERASED IS PRETTY BY-THE-BOOK THAT WAY. THERE ARE POTS WHEN THE FILM ALMOST DRIFTS TO SOMBER DREAMS, BUT THEN EDGERTON RES . THE FILM FLASH BACK ON OCSN, TO TWO ENUNTERS JARED HAD WH BOYS LLEGE, ONE TENR AND THE OTHER TERRIFYG. THERE’S AN OPPORTUNY THERE FOR EDGERTON TO BREAK OM THE FILM’S STOLID FORMALNS. I WANTED TO GET TO KNOW JARED’S NER LIFE A B BETTER, TO UNRSTAND WHERE THE STRENGTH HE DRAWS ON AT THE END OF THE FILM ME OM. THIS SUMMER’S SIARLY THEMED MISTN OF CAMERON POST HAD MUCH THE SAME PROBLEM: S PROTAGONIST WAS A B OF A BLANK, A CIPHER AROUND WHICH MORE TERTG, IDSYNCRATIC CHARACTERS ORBED.WHICH BRGS ME TO A TRICKY POT. OBVLY, CONLEY IS WHO HE IS, AND THIS IS HIS STORY. BUT WATCHG THE FILM, I ULDN’T HELP BUT WISH FOR THIS SAME KD OF NARRATIVE, BUT STEAD ABOUT A KID WHO N’T QUE PASS—WHO PRENTS A WAY THAT IS MORE, ANKLY, MONSTRABLY QUEER THAN HEDG’S JARED IS. WE SEE THOSE KIDS ON THE SIL BOY ERASED, AND CAMERON POST, BUT THERE IS STILL A SUPPOSEDLY MORE PALATABLE “LS GAY” PERSON AT THE CENTER.AH, WELL. BOY ERASED IS STILL A RPECTABLE EFFORT, SER AND SOBER, ABOUT A VERY REAL, VERY BAD PRACTICE. THE FILM’S HEART IS FIRMLY THE RIGHT PLACE. AS IS S HEAD: THERE’S A TERRIFIC SCENE TOWARD THE END OF THE FILM WHICH JARED LMLY, BUT WH A TREMBLE OF EMOTN HIS VOICE, LAYS OUT TO HIS FATHER WHAT A NTUED RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO LOOK LIKE. IT’S A SMART, EMPHATIC, DIRECT PIECE OF WRG. AND HEDG AND CROWE ARE TERRIFIC TOGETHER, AS TWO MEN—ONE YOUNG AND NEWLY EE WH SELF-DISVERY, THE OTHER OLD AND NEEDG TO RENSIR TOXIC, LONG-HELD IALS—TRYG TO LURCH THEMSELV FORWARD TOGETHER.MAYBE THAT IS THE SOMETHG NEW THAT BOY ERASED ACTUALLY DID SHOW ME: NOT ANOTHER G-OUT SCENE, BUT SOMETHG PAST THAT. IT’S AN ASSERTN OF STRENGTH AND PRCIPLE AND SELF-POSSSN THAT FEELS PRETTY HARD WON. THAT’S NICE TO SEE. AND WHEN THAT GEO SIVAN SONG CU UP AND THE MOVIE GLIS TO A CLOSE—JT AS JARED’S LIFE BTERSWEETLY YAWNS OPEN—THE TEARS ARRIVE. ANY ASSSMENT OF THIS FILM CERTALY SHOULDN’T ERASE THAT.MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYRICHARD LAWSON

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

Jared begs to qutn his sexualy and eventually out as gay to his parents, played by Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe. Jared's father, a Baptist preacher, sends him to a nversn therapy program an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexualy.

The program is n by Victor Syk (Joel Edgerton), a stern and thorarian figure who believ that homosexualy is a s that n be cured through prayer and Jared unrgo the program, he is subjected to var abive and harmful treatments, cludg group therapy ssns where other participants are enuraged to shame and huiate him. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2018R1h 55mThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his productn, box office & pany Vios42More like thisReview Hard to watch but absolutely credibleAs a gay man myself, this movie ma me sooooo angry. Garrard Conley's memoir of growg up as the gay son of a nservative Baptist preacher has been ma to a movie.

REVIEW: BOY ERASED IS FELY ACTED, BUT FAIARJOEL EDGERTON’S FILM SPORTS GREAT PERFORMANC, BUT LEFT WANTG MORE.BY RICHARD LAWSONSEPTEMBER 1, 2018COURTY OF FOC FEATURSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETEXTG WH A LLEAGUE AFTER THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE GAY NVERSN DRAMA BOY ERASED HERE TELLURI, I TOLD HIM I LIKED THE MOVIE, BUT THAT DIDN’T TELL ME ANYTHG NEW. WHICH I IMMEDIATELY REALIZED WASN’T REALLY FAIR; WHO R, REALLY, WHAT TELLS ME—A LONG-OUT GAY ADULT DOG FE—PERSONALLY? JOEL EDGERTON’S EARNT, SOLIDLY MA FILM WILL BE MOST EFFECTIVE ON, AND MAYBE NECSARY FOR, THOSE IMMEDIATELY SUFFERG UNR THE CSH OF ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY, AND THOSE PERPETRATG . SCREENG THE FILM TO THE TELLURI DIENCE IS A B OF A PREACH TO THE CHOIR, SO TO SPEAK—SO I HOPE THE FILM WILL SOMEHOW REACH THOSE MIGHT TLY RATTLE, FORT, AND CHANGE.ADAPTED OM GARRAD CONLEY’S BT-SELLG MEMOIR, BOY ERASED FOLLOWS 18-YEAR-OLD JARED, SON OF A PASTOR, AS HE ENTERS AN OUTPATIENT NVERSN-THERAPY PROGRAM PERVERSELY LLED LOVE ACTN. JARED IS PLAYED BY LUS HEDG, A ROURCEFUL YOUNG ACTOR WHO HERE LOT THE QUIET NFN, YEARNG, AND PA OF THE CLOSET. ALL THAT TRMA IS PECIALLY ACUTE GIVEN JARED’S TENSELY RELIG UPBRGG, HIS LOVG AND (THEY THK) WELL-MEANG PARENTS FURTHER POUNDG HIS ANGUISH THEIR ATTEMPTS TO HELP HIM. THE PARENTS ARE PLAYED SENSIVELY AND WHOUT BIBLE-BELT RITURE BY A WET-EYED RSELL CROWE AND AN ORNATELY BEWIGGED NILE KIDMAN. THIS FE TR WORK RICH NCERT, ELEVATG THE FAIRLY STANDARD-ISSUE MATERIAL TO POIGNANT HIGHS.THERE’S STRONG ACTG WH THE LOVE ACTN FACILY AS WELL, PECIALLY OM EDGERTON HIMSELF, WHO PERFECTLY LIBRAT THE MENTOR-MONSTER DUALY OF THE PROGRAM’S DIRECTOR. THE SUPPORTG ST IS ECLECTIC—ROCKER FLEA, NASCENT GAY POP IN TROYE SIVAN (WHO HAS A LOVELY ORIGAL SONG THE FILM), AND QUéBéIS ACTOR-DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN ALL APPEAR—AND EACH NTRIBUT A POWERFUL OR PERSUASIVE MOMENT OR TWO. EDGERTON HAS BUILT HIS MOVIE WELL, A KD OF PRTIGE VERSN OF THE ISSU DRAMAS WE ED TO ASSOCIATE WH BASIC BLE.BOY ERASED IS PRETTY BY-THE-BOOK THAT WAY. THERE ARE POTS WHEN THE FILM ALMOST DRIFTS TO SOMBER DREAMS, BUT THEN EDGERTON RES . THE FILM FLASH BACK ON OCSN, TO TWO ENUNTERS JARED HAD WH BOYS LLEGE, ONE TENR AND THE OTHER TERRIFYG. THERE’S AN OPPORTUNY THERE FOR EDGERTON TO BREAK OM THE FILM’S STOLID FORMALNS. I WANTED TO GET TO KNOW JARED’S NER LIFE A B BETTER, TO UNRSTAND WHERE THE STRENGTH HE DRAWS ON AT THE END OF THE FILM ME OM. THIS SUMMER’S SIARLY THEMED MISTN OF CAMERON POST HAD MUCH THE SAME PROBLEM: S PROTAGONIST WAS A B OF A BLANK, A CIPHER AROUND WHICH MORE TERTG, IDSYNCRATIC CHARACTERS ORBED.WHICH BRGS ME TO A TRICKY POT. OBVLY, CONLEY IS WHO HE IS, AND THIS IS HIS STORY. BUT WATCHG THE FILM, I ULDN’T HELP BUT WISH FOR THIS SAME KD OF NARRATIVE, BUT STEAD ABOUT A KID WHO N’T QUE PASS—WHO PRENTS A WAY THAT IS MORE, ANKLY, MONSTRABLY QUEER THAN HEDG’S JARED IS. WE SEE THOSE KIDS ON THE SIL BOY ERASED, AND CAMERON POST, BUT THERE IS STILL A SUPPOSEDLY MORE PALATABLE “LS GAY” PERSON AT THE CENTER.AH, WELL. BOY ERASED IS STILL A RPECTABLE EFFORT, SER AND SOBER, ABOUT A VERY REAL, VERY BAD PRACTICE. THE FILM’S HEART IS FIRMLY THE RIGHT PLACE. AS IS S HEAD: THERE’S A TERRIFIC SCENE TOWARD THE END OF THE FILM WHICH JARED LMLY, BUT WH A TREMBLE OF EMOTN HIS VOICE, LAYS OUT TO HIS FATHER WHAT A NTUED RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO LOOK LIKE. IT’S A SMART, EMPHATIC, DIRECT PIECE OF WRG. AND HEDG AND CROWE ARE TERRIFIC TOGETHER, AS TWO MEN—ONE YOUNG AND NEWLY EE WH SELF-DISVERY, THE OTHER OLD AND NEEDG TO RENSIR TOXIC, LONG-HELD IALS—TRYG TO LURCH THEMSELV FORWARD TOGETHER.MAYBE THAT IS THE SOMETHG NEW THAT BOY ERASED ACTUALLY DID SHOW ME: NOT ANOTHER G-OUT SCENE, BUT SOMETHG PAST THAT. IT’S AN ASSERTN OF STRENGTH AND PRCIPLE AND SELF-POSSSN THAT FEELS PRETTY HARD WON. THAT’S NICE TO SEE. AND WHEN THAT GEO SIVAN SONG CU UP AND THE MOVIE GLIS TO A CLOSE—JT AS JARED’S LIFE BTERSWEETLY YAWNS OPEN—THE TEARS ARRIVE. ANY ASSSMENT OF THIS FILM CERTALY SHOULDN’T ERASE THAT.MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYRICHARD LAWSON

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