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| Nicole Kidman, Lucas Hedges, Russell Crowe |
Boy Erased isn't the first movie about the bogus conversion therapy that some people mockingly call "praying away the gay." Earlier this year, Chloe Grace Moretz starred in "The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
The Movie Slut has now seen both films and believes the subject warrants a double take. Of the two, Boy Erased, based on a memoir by Garrard Conley, about his teenage years as the son of a Baptist Minister and homemaker mom living in the deep south is the unforgettable one.
The misguided, uninformed, unscientific notion that sexual orientation is a choice that can be changed is resonant in both films, but what makes Boy Erased the standout is the bottomless motherly love that saves Jared (his movie name) from the clutches of the ignorant "therapists" who claim they can "fix" him. While his father takes more time to accept his son due to his deep religious belief, even he, after a mighty struggle, comes around.
This is not only a movie about the stupidity and danger of gay-conversion therapy. It's also a film about the triumph of love.
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