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Mysterious Skin : Avalyn and Brian Discover Dead Deer

After meeting to discuss shared memories of alien abduction and violation, Brian (Brady Corbet) and Avalyn (Mary Lynn Rajskub) encounter a dead deer she says was experimented on by aliens and then left in the field near her home. When she presses Brian to insert his hand into an incision in the body, he experiences flashbacks of past alien abduction and violation -- with a young Neil (Chase Ellison) appearing in them alongside his own past self (George Webster)

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act 2 (three-act structure), acting, aerial shot, ambient sound , backlighting, beat, action, beat, event, bird's-eye view, character, character development, close-up, contrast, crane shot, crosscutting, diegetic sound, directional lighting, dissolve, editing, expressive mise-en-scene, exterior, extreme close-up, eyeline match, flashback, high angle, hue, interior, lighting, location, long shot, low angle, medium close-up, montage, one-shot, prop, metaphorical, psychological setting, reaction shot, rhythmic editing, shot/reverse shot, side lighting, sound bridge, tilt, two-shot, voice-off, zoom-in

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Queer Coding, White, White: White American

"Avalyn and Brian Discover Dead Deer " in Mysterious Skin. Directed by Gregg Araki, Desperate Pictures, 2005, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2950

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user George Elkind

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