At the outset I thought this had a lot of promise by virtue of how challenging and uncomfortable the subject matter is I like being made to squirm but the film is poorly put together and fairly trite. The film is held together by voiceovers and weirdly edited, and although the shift between miserable and grimy scenes and scenes of innocent exaltation might be challenging if "misery" and "innocence" were pulled off well, this film did not seem self-aware enough to make it happen. This is a fairly daring film in terms of subject matter but not pulled off with enough honesty to really challenge. Not an awful movie, but I would avoid it.
Review of Mysterious Skin
