Young Bodies Heal Quickly follows the runaway adventures of two brothers after beating a woman during a rampage and from then a surreal plot unveils a ride across broken family ties, random encounter with foreign lovers and lastly with an odd relation with their Australian father, who turns to be a sort of military obsessed figure. It is impossible not to relate the misé en scene and the mood with Harmony Korine´s Gummo (1997), a cult film that placed the white trash culture as a worth exploring theme. Both films share a unique mood for broken communities with broken dreams, but Andrew T. Beltzer´s film explores deeper human issues with a mature aesthetical approach.
Overall, whether well versed audience or film buffs may experience contradictory takes on Young Bodies Heal Quickly, it´s a movie that has to be revisited several times along with his previous works to experience a cinematic surprise, the unique kind that only Andrew T. Beltzer creates.