based on Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a middle-America Baptist pastor, "Boy Erased" resonates exactly because it treats everyone as a human being, complex and impossible to reduce to binaries
a powerfully conflicted portrait of the relationship between love and hate; "Boy Erased" regards everyone with such raw empathy that even its most difficult moments are fraught with the possibility of forgiveness
"Boy Erased" aims to influence the debate on gay conversion therapy that is still unresolved in many parts of the country, but it deserves praise not as a polemic but as a richly humanistic, emotionally searing drama that sticks in the memory
by Barry Hertz [Globe and Mail ]
