39 out of 43 people found the following review helpful:

SICK, SICK, SICK

Deeps from Birmingham, 25th August, 2006

Absolute Disgrace, The Director should be shot!! This an horrendous film. sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick!!!!!!

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37 out of 58 people found the following review helpful:

Stunning movie

A Customer from Kent , England, 5th October, 2005

This film is the best of its kind i have ever seen. It is a rollercoaster from start to end. Superbly cast with the acting painfully believable. The film is very careful to stay in context and not over emphasise the graphic points leaving enough to the shocked imagination. my heart was pulled from scene to scene. As a victim of similar life to the lead role i felt strongly intuned to his life and truly believed his performance. A must buy for anyone who can cope with the powerfull story and haunting visuals.

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21 out of 24 people found the following review helpful:

Can you handle a harsh,frank yet sensitive exploration of paedophilia and male prostitution?If so,crack on!

QPR Olly from Shepherd's Bush,England, 20th May, 2007

Feel-good family fare?Not a bit of it,strictly adult heavy-yet- rewarding,going. Have you seen Kevin Bacon in 'The Woodsman',Todd Solondz's 'Happiness' or David Slade's excellent debut 'Hard Candy'?;got through the often sordid and gruelling subject matter,and enjoyed them?If so you'll like this film. The two male leads are linked by traumatic events suffered as 8 years olds.One, (the brilliant Joseph Gordon Levitt of '3rd Rock From The Sun' and more notably 'Brick' fame) turns into a cold amoral male prostitute,the other (the also very good, Brady Corbet) a sexless geek convinced of alien abduction.Levitt's character Brian,suffers such brutal degredation from his clients,that director Gregg Araki makes you despair for human male(gay?)sexuality.But the film is by no means unremittingly bleak;firstly Brian has two caring humane friends...- (one is the..wake up hetero men!.. corruscating beauty Michelle Trachtenberg,Buffy's little sister.How come Hollywood doesn't offer her lead roles when she's a better actress than Mischa Barton?)..-and secondly there is a rare beauty in the look of Arraki's film somewhat reminiscent of 'Rumblefish'.A tough watch but a well-acted, memorable film.

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18 out of 19 people found the following review helpful:

A work of art, if not for everyone

A Customer from London, UK, 26th January, 2006

Last time I was this moved by a film, it was The Railway Children or It's A Wonderful Life. Rather different subject matter - there's scenes of paedophilia, and rape which although not explicit, and implied so strongly that it's incredible the film was made at all. Perfect use of dreamy indie music (Sigur Ros, Robin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins etc), stunning cinematography, incredible performances all round, ingenious use of POV shots and voice overs to film traumatic scenes without traumatising the child actors themselves. It's a movie about childhood and types of denial, about the need to face the truth in order to move on. Free of cliche, you've never seen anything like it. I found it hard to enjoy lighter fare for a while - the stakes had been raised. An absolute work of art.

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"Somehow enthralling & intriguing" . .

locococo from from The Surrey Hills, 1st September, 2008

(3rd June 2008) Finely crafted and 'played'- involving, alarming (shocking) and poignant. A special and uniquely different film.

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Stunning in so Many Ways

Oshima from from Hinckley, 11th June, 2008

The only Gregg Araki film I had seen before this had been The Doom Generation and so I was half expecting some trash (albeit harrowing trash) about confused teens. Mysterious Eyes was not trash but a wonderful peace of work. The story flows and develops perfectly, showing the different ways in which people can react to and deal with childhood trauma. At times it is very difficult to watch but for me that was because I cared about the characters. I was really shaken up after watching this film and I know I wont need to watch it again for a while because so much of it will stay with me.

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Worth seeing - great acting

A Customer from London, 4th April, 2008

This filim is definitely worth seeing, great acting, although it is uncomfortable to watch at times - but you get lead through their lives from the two guys being young and finding out how their paths had crossed when they were younger to their teen years and how their childhood experiences had moulded them - Definitely worth viewing

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Much better than expected!

Gemzter from from Woodbridge, 3rd April, 2008

If you are not easily upset or offended, give it a try. I was very surprised at actually how deep this film was, and the acting was top notch.

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