fucked up film: l.i.e. (2001)

l.i.e. is about a kid named howie played by paul dano who hangs around with kids that break into houses and steal stuff. howie's best friend is a boy named gary. howie is a bit sexually confused and he develops a crush on gary. one night, gary and howie break into the house of big john during his birthday party and steal his prized hand guns. john attacks howie and tears off a piece of howie's jeans. howie later discovers that gary is a hustler and he is one of john's clients. plus john is a huge pedophile. like REALLY huge. throughout the film, howie begins a nonsexual relationship with john and becomes a fatherly figure for howie. the whole film is pretty fucking sad and you feel really bad for howie and john. especially john, for me at least. i think we tend to label pedophiles as some sort of monsters as if that's politically correct. they're human beings. not that i'm saying it's ok to do that shit. anyway i really liked this. the story line fell a little flat in the end but the characters felt so real. another great movie that deals with this subject is the woodsman which is like the most honest and heart breaking movie i've seen in ages.

FUCKED UP RATING: 8 OUT OF 10
OVERALL: 7 OUT OF 10

the passion of darkly noon (1995)

the passion of darkly noon is about a guy named darkly noon played by brendan fraser (don't laugh) who is found wandering in the forest and is saved by a guy named jude. jude drives him to his friend callie who takes on the offer to let him stay at her place. as darkly recovers the next day, callie begins to question where he came from. darkly explains that his parents were in a christian cult and the whole town turned against his family and his parents were killed. throughout the movie, darkly becomes increasingly attracted to callie but she is dating a mute boyfriend named clay played by viggo mortensen. darkly cannot stand to watch clay and callie getting sexed up all the time and it pisses off darkly so much that he ends up going nuts at the end. there's way more to the story but it's really fucking good. brendan fraser performance is really great and i think he gets a bad rep for all of the mediocre movies he's done. i was this close of labeling this as a fucked up film because someone said this movie was pretty erotic. callie's character sort of had this softcore vibe to her that you see in darkly's perspective. plus there was one scene where darkly jerks off to her so no fucked up label on this one.

6.5 OUT OF 10