Memory Sore

Memory Sore is an Academy Award Winning, Multi-Award Winning American drama film written by Stephen Dyer and directed by Martin Scorcese starring Cate Blanchett, John Cusack, Dominic Monaghan, Robin Williams, Ryan Phillipe, Aaron Paul, Harvey Keitel and Giovanni Ribisi.

The film secured 2 Oscars 1. For Best Original Screenplay and 2. Best Score.

It secured An Emmy for Best Picture and an Emmy Nomination for John Cusack's performance.

The film received the Palm D'Or for Truly Moving Picture.

Plot
Benji Thomas (John Cusack) is a 19 year old street punk teenager with an intense hatred for homosexuals as his father Lionel (Harvey Keitel) would sexually abuse him.

He never recovered from the trauma despite his father then being incarcerated, he begins to experience hallucinations and migraines and takes up on heavy medication.

His young half-brother Leonardo (Dominic Monaghan) then reveals that he is homosexual to their mother and his father.

Whilest their mother Anna (Cate Blanchett) and his father Martin (Bryan Cranston) accept his orientation his brother Benji refuses to and comes to tell his vicious gang of punk friends about it.

His bestfriend Simon (Aaron Paul) happened to have been molested by a paedophile when he was only six years old and beneath his relatively outgoing, kind nature lies a dormant blind fury.

Benji's friend Thomas (Ryan Phillipe) proposes that maybe Benji is homosexual like his brother which sparks his anger.

The two briefly punch on and Benji who pins down Thomas insists that his brother isn't gay he is just confused and Thomas demands he prove it.

Benji then states he will and calls upon his younger brother Leo who had been hoping so desperatley for his approval and understanding jumps with excitement when Benji tells him he's going to take him out somewhere nice and make up for being a crappy brother with the whole orientation thing.

He states they are to go bowling at the old Brexton Movie Theatre which plays the old 1950's classic black and white films Leo adores as Leo wishes to be an actor.

He brings him instead to the woods off an overpass highway where they meet up with his friends where he claims his just gotta pick up something up off Simon first.

He asks Leo to step out with him and then begins to drink an excessive amount of alcohol.

The others who are already drunk then greet Leo and begin to then insult him and hit him when he answers his gay to when Thomas asks.

He asks Benji to tell them to let go and he informs Leo he can't do that until he admits he is not actually homosexual just confused.

Leo is then pinned down and threatened with having his hair lit on fire at which point Benji begins to tell them to stop.

Thomas retracts the lighter from Leo at last minute and they then begin to provoke Simon who then in a moment of anger picks up a rock and cracks it down upon Leo's face killing him instantly.

What follows is the other three fleeing and Thomas by gun threatening Benji and the others not to tell what happened.

Benji broken begins to trip out on hallucinations galore and his mother and stepfather then soon file a missing persons on Leo.

Leo's body ios then discovered in the woods and due to the massive rainstorm all incriminating evidence to lead to the culprits responsible for smashing in their son's face has been washed away.