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Amnesia | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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2005 | Gregg
Best Director | 2005 | Gregg
2004 | Gregg
2005 | Gregg
Best Director | 2006 | Gregg
Outstanding Film Limited Release | 2006
Best Foreign Film English Language | 2005 | Gregg
Breakthrough Actor | 2005 | Joseph
Best Performance | 2005 | Joseph
Best Feature | 2004 | Gregg
Best Film | 2004 | Gregg
Box Office Collection 1,500,000 USD
Gregg Araki said in an NPR interview that he shot all of the scenes with the child actors in such a way that they did not know the sexual context of their abuse scenes, and only during editing did he make the movie appear to show children being abused or witnessing abuse.
If you look closely, the scene when the coach rests his head on Neil's chest (at 0:14:45), you can see Neil's not breathing and you cannot see his head. This is because it was an insert shot using a prop for Neil's chest so that the child actor was not aware of the sexual content that was being displayed during the production of the film.
According to psychologist Richard Gartner, Mysterious Skin (2004) is a very accurate depiction of sexual abuse on boys.
To prepare for his role, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt spent a week visiting cities and towns in Kansas where the book is set. Scott Heim, author of the original novel, guided him around the locations and had him meet the actual people on whom the characters are based.
Gregg Araki cut the movie himself on his Macintosh using Final Cut Pro 4.
"[last lines] Neil: [narration voice-over] And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear."
"Wendy: You'd better be careful. Eric: Of what? Wendy: I'm serious, Eric. You're not in Modesto anymore. I see the way you look at him. Eric: He's so beautiful. I can't help it. He's like a god. Wendy: You don't have to tell me, I was infatuated with him too once. But I know all Neil's secrets and there's shit there you don't even want to know about. Trust me. Once I'm gone, you'll be all Neil has and you have to understand one thing. Where normal people have a heart, Neil McCormick has a bottomless black hole. And if you don't watch out, you can fall in and get lost forever."
