Mysterious Skin
Movie • 2004 • Drama
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A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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An 8 year old boy is accidentally left alone with no way to get home when his baseball game is cancelled, which leads to him being abducted.
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Abuse
Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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A child gets groomed into helping the abuser assault more children
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Is someone stalked?
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I think the yes votes are because Brian finds Neil's house and becomes obsessed with meeting him? But it's not with malicious intent
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The movie’s whole plot involves child sexual abuse. The abuse is described in excruciating detail, and a lot of grooming is shown on screen. The coach is seen kissing the child from the child’s POV. The aftermath and symptoms of childhood trauma is shown constantly throughout. Young 18 year olds are preyed upon by much older people also.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Though only slightly implied in the movie, Brian’s father was physically abusive (in the book it is more explicit). Aside from that, at best some of the parents were negligent.
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Addiction
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Cocaine, LSD, cigarettes, and marijuana are all used.
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how it dies is not shown
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Is there a dead animal?
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cow seen dead, characters touch it
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Assault
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One of the male protagonists is a sex worker and gets raped by a male client. It's a disturbing and intense scene. Besides the rape itself, he gets verbally abused and also beaten with a bottle on the head. Very disturbing scene.
Sexual assault on children is also shown. If it helps, the director of the film filmed the children always apart from the adult so they didn't know what they were really filming. Only in post-production and editing, does the director make it look like they share a scene.
Sexual assault on children is also shown. If it helps, the director of the film filmed the children always apart from the adult so they didn't know what they were really filming. Only in post-production and editing, does the director make it look like they share a scene.
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Is someone held under water?
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Not fully submerged, but someone is held down in a tub while the shower head is on and hitting them in the face with water.
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Is there pedophilia?
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The main characters are victims of CSA. Pedophilia is a major theme so I don't recommend watching if it's a trigger for you
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A male sex worker is brutally raped and beaten by a male client.
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Is someone restrained?
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depends what you considered restraining
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Two young children bully a disabled child into laying down on the ground so that they can launch small fireworks out of his mouth. Afterwards, his face is bloody and full of splinters.
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Is someone drugged?
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One of the main characters is a young sex worker, and one of his clients forces him to snort a substance.
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Bodily Harm
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Although not shown, a character talks to another character about the bruises/injuries on their genitals from a client
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Does someone have a seizure?
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maybe? a character trembles severely towards the end, and experiences blackouts/fainting in response to trauma
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Brian passes out on multiple occasions. Neil is also knocked unconscious at one point
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Does a head get squashed?
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a character is struck hard in the head, but no crushed heads
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Is there excessive gore?
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sort of. a character reaches into the remains of a cow- it isn't bloody, but it is rather graphic. characters are shown bloodied at several points.
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Children
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Is an infant abducted?
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An 8 year old child is abducted but not a baby
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Whole movie deals with CSA and the traumatic aftermath of it. Children are sexually objectified and groomed by their coach. He also films them, clearly with the intention to use it as certain material afterward.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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not sure why most people voted no, brian is kidnapped by the coach
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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There’s very sudden flashes of title cards that shocked me a bit
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Is there a shower scene?
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yes, the shower scene is rather uncomfortable to watch. it also includes blood and a few other possibly triggering things
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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While no vomit happens, there is a scene where a character is gagging during sex in a very audible way. It briefly seems like they are going to v*m, but don’t.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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i think the other comment is supposed to say "does"
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Is there farting?
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no but there is burping.
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Does someone spit?
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A man spits on a teenage boy's face
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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not exactly, but there are these two kids that torment a mentally disabled kid and one of them proceeds to sexually assault said disabled kid.
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Is there misophonia?
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Sex noises.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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As a joke when asked what they want to do now that their friend moved away
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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i don't think anyone is officially diagnosed as such, but trauma is the main theme of this movie
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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due to childhood trauma, a character mistakenly believes that he was abducted by aliens as a child and has flashbacks of “aliens” that in reality was just his abuser.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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One of the characters has a few anxiety attacks where he seems to dissociate and gets a bloody nose.
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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While Brian walks into the house at the end the camera is shakey
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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One of the main characters and his friends are gay and slurs are used by/against them
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Near the beginning; a kid calls another kid r***rd
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Is there hate speech?
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There are two instances of a gay character being called the f slur. A disabled kid is called the r slur.
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Is there aphobia?
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One of the supporting characters is writing a letter and refers to the main character who believes he was abducted by aliens as mostly asexual. The supporting character just met the main character after the main character was sexually assaulted by someone he trusted to help him work through his abduction memories and dreams.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Please note that the children are victims and are not in any relationships.
The male sex worker is not in relationships with older men, they are clienta.
The male sex worker is not in relationships with older men, they are clienta.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Two characters were at a drive-in theatre with no movie playing. They put their ear up to the speaker and said they could hear the voice of god.
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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In addition to the assault scene and the off screen child sexual abuse, the main character who is a sex worker performs oral sex on men and has oral sex performed on him.
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No, but the main character does jerk off to his mom's boyfriend while the boyfriend is getting jerked off by his mom
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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a man is shown to have AIDS
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is dark, but the main character realizes he shares trauma with the other main character and is comforted.
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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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if blood scares you then don't watch cause one of the main characters gets nose bleeds almost each scene
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Does someone drown?
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No one drowns but a main character is raped in the shower with his head on the floor of the bathtub while the water falls down on his face.
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Is there gun violence?
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nothing happens but a shotgun is pointed at the main character
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