Not only does Bowman get better laughs when he's being more controversial, he also makes you think more.

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And what Araki does I think really well and I think really courageously in "Mysterious Skin" is that he--instead of attempting to humanize the perpetrator, he humanizes the victim or at least he makes them more complicated than you would think.

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"I don't go with the word posh, unless you think by dressing up that makes you posh, " he said.

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You don't have to like Beck or his message or think that he makes an ounce of sense.

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