Araki continues to dissect the dramas of ordinary lives through the filter of sexuality as two boys undergo a traumatic experience at an early age and recoil from it in vastly differing ways, one by treating his body so cheaply as to prostitute himself, the other through an obsessive belief in having been the victim of an alien abduction.The drama is low-key and the set-ups of violent clients and moments of erotic catharsis are familiar from numerous gay and straight takes on alienation and prostitution. But the director's touch is pleasingly light and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, once the sarky little teenager in Third Rock from the Sun, gets to display a growing control and maturity in the role of the emotionally deadened Neil. Comparisons to Heath Ledger might already have been touted even without the uncanny physical resemblance: it's an impressive performance of cocksure fragility.
6/10
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