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[Movie Review] Boy Erased (2018)



Boy Erased, a movie directed by Joel Edgerton, who also play as Victor Sykes in the movie – a person who supposed to guide young men back to their right path from being a homosexual or from doing any sinful actions in their life – is a movie centered on Jared Eamons’s life. 

Jared Eamons captured and played by Lucas Hedges, is a young man who questioned his identity through his whole life until when he was in college, he experienced something that will forever change how he sees things and how he see himself. Being the son of a priest, he was constantly trying to show and live up to what his community expected him to be, to be a priest’s son should be. After he came out to his parents, he being dragged to attend a conventional therapy that his dad’s fellow priests suggested. There, he meet others who also have the same journeys and how each person in the therapy session struggle and cope with their sexuality and coming out to their parents only to be dragged across country, hopefully, to be enlightened.

This movie will show you what problems and issues every individual in LGBTQ+ community face in everyday life, whether by their family, friends, and society. Adapted from a memoir by Garrard Conley, I think this movie is well executed and well-said. I appreciate the actors who plays in it, especially Nicole Kidman who capture the figure of Jared’s mom, truly an inspiring character. The strong, the braveness, the gentle, the kind and loving side of Jared’s mother, also how Jared’s Dad (played by Russell Crowe) dealt with his issues toward his son, and how others who on the same journey as Jared handling and coping with their own way, makes this movie is important to watch, not just because the story it brought but also how complex and good the movie is.

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