So what happened to the coach?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mysterious Skin
AtheistRevolution — 10 years ago(August 17, 2015 02:33 AM)
Dead or moved? If he's alive they need to track him down and play some baseball with his head.
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ginger-51 — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 02:26 PM)
Yeah, I'm rewatching this film (one of my fav's though it is disturbing for sure) and I was wondering what became of the coach too. The reason I was wondering is because of the scene where Eric (the friend) is hanging in Neil's room with him, and Neil passes out, so Eric looks in his drawerfinds the old polaroid photos of him as a child with the coach's finger in his mouth, and the audio tape of the two of them playing around. The first thing that occurred to me was, if the coach was still out there somewhere, no way in HELL would he have given those treasures away. Especially the photo, since he said that was his favorite of the bunch.
So how did Neil come to be in possession of those items? Maybe coach went to jail and asked Neil to keep them safe for him? maybe some angry parent ended up killing him after learning of what he had done to their kid, and Neil took his stuff to have a memento? I know that's not likelybut neither is that coach would have given those items away. He would have kept them for later use.