Mysterious Skin Screenplay [exclusive] Official

These must be written in the present tense and describe only what can be seen or heard.

| Character | Coping Mechanism | Narrative Style | |-----------|----------------|----------------| | (child: Chase Ellison / adult: Brady Corbet) | Repression, somatic symptoms, belief in alien abduction | Linear, grounded, desperate for answers | | Neil McCormick (child: George Webster / adult: Joseph Gordon-Levitt) | Reenactment, hypersexuality, detachment | Fragmented, first-person voiceover, drifting | mysterious skin screenplay

: A reclusive young man who has repressed the memory of the abuse, replacing it with a fantasy of alien abduction. These must be written in the present tense