 What's going on everyone? Got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today we're discussing Boy Erased Erased is about the son of a Baptist preacher who is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program after being forcefully outed to his parents now This is a biography. This is based on a true story It's very much a drama and it's directed by Joe Egerton the man who did the gift Which I'm a big fan of Joe Egerton I think he's one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood today and he did such a phenomenal job with the gift I was looking forward to whatever the guy was gonna direct and write next This is obviously a sophomore outing and man, it's brilliant I I fell in this film to capture so many different lights and levels and what I think this film did so well is that it is Very much based on this true story. It's telling this story. It's very much this drama But the film is also an informative piece about this issue That's going on that the fact that this gay conversion centers are real and there's still a thing of today And that they're still legal and I think 23 or even more than that state That is ludicrous to me. I'm pretty maybe it's even 32. I'm not a hundred percent sure But it makes you want to dive in after watching some and look into more of the subject matter And what's going on after seeing what this character and what this person dealt with Lucas Hedges does play the main kid in here and he is so good I mean Lucas Hedges when he showed up back in Manchester by the sea that film blew me away And he was the big standout for me personally in that film and again I think Lucas Hedges adds another film to his resume of being a fantastic actor He's a young up-and-comer, but he has so much emotion to show There's a scene in here where he is being outed to his parents We he has to tell his parents his parents who are big Christian parents He's to tell him that he's gay and it is one of the most emotional scenes in the whole entire film And one of the biggest reasons that it's so emotional is just how all the actor and actresses play it off You look at Lucas Hedges how he plays it off But might I say Russell Crowe who plays the Baptist preacher who plays his father in this film? I gotta say I think this is Russell Crowe's best performance of his career And I've seen a lot of crow performances don't get me wrong I know he's one of the best actors working today, but my god He is so phenomenal in this movie it blew me out of the water How damn good Russell Crowe was in this movie and how he just emphasized I always say this is that actors can speak they can do monologues They can do all that stuff they can lose weight they can do this But a lot of emotion can come from their eyes and I do say that Russell Crowe a lot of his emotions are within his eyes Not just within the monologues in the way that he speaks, but he became this Baptist preacher I never saw Russell Crowe in this role. I saw the man who he was portraying Cole Kidman is a knockout star in this film She is always so good in the last few years She's been finding her niche in the supporting roles and she is so damn transformative also in here I think her and Crowe really steal the whole show and overall all the performances are great Eggerton also stars in the film as one of the conversion center therapists And he has a very interesting past and the thing that I loved about boy races that tackles everyone's point of views on this thing It tackles everyone's central morals and that not everyone's perfect Everyone has issues that's going on within their own lives the parents do Lucas Hedges's characters Doesn't even therapist that Joe Eggerton plays has his own issues too And it's just cool to see all the different Elements of each character where in a sense this film could have came off really one noted for a lot of the characters It doesn't it's little manners or even looks and you get these from the other kids that are in the conversion center One of the most brilliant parts about boy erase though is the way that Joe Eggerton directed this film He obviously we saw a style of directing in the gift and it was very Tension-filled it was thriller ask it had a horror tone to it But it really much was a thriller at the heart of it the thing about boy erase those yeah You expect the true story. Yeah, you expect the drama and you expect that yeah It's gonna have some informative pieces in there, but Eggerton directs this film with so much tension-filled in it. There's so many thrilling moments in here There's a couple moments where Hedges's character is at a college campus and getting to know some of the kids there And there's one moment in particular that I don't want to spoil but I Was gripping my knuckles just going I know what this is gonna go and man Eggerton knows how to linger on that camera and how to linger on a shot so well where it doesn't feel like it's overly Drafted and overly too long but just perfectly subtle to where it fits and it's getting what is going right And it makes you feel cringy and makes you feel uneasy, but that's what the gift did And I think boy erase does the same thing it does that with a lot of the parents It does that with the therapist it does that with the conversion center and one thing I'm so appreciative that when he was writing this film he didn't make the parents be out to be a villain They are having their own moral issues. They don't understand this And seeing their character arc as the story progresses is so wonderful and going from Hedges's character to you understand his moral Stuggers and even with the therapist who at times. Yes is one note He pretty much is that in stuff the whole entire film you get to know him a little bit Especially some of the montagey things that towards the end you get to know a little bit even more of him And that's where I like this film. I think boy erased is a brilliant Informative true story drama that is such a needed film that needs to be seen The fact that these conversion centers aren't more on the news is utterly insane to me But this is a film that needs to be watched it needs to be seen It carries some of the best forms of the year and I wholeheartedly hope this film does not get trampled under All the other oscar films coming out. It needs to be pushed For cons though. I will say this um some of the song choices were a little bit Too cheesy a little bit too cheesy, but I thought the score was billion in a lot of parts And the film does drag in some moments But I thought the dragging needed to be there to get you invested and it got me invested in the story A little bit one too many flashback moments, but those are really just nitpicks. I I wholeheartedly recommend boy erased It's easily one of us films of this year. So with all that said, I'm gonna get boy erased an a minus Guys, what are your thoughts on boy erase? Have you heard of this true story? Have you read the book? Have you seen this movie? 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