<Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> United States </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <P> The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is a 2011 American short film written and directed by Ari Aster . The film stars Billy Mayo, Brandon Greenhouse, and Angela Bullock as members of a suburban family in which the son is involved with a taboo relationship with his father . </P> <P> A twelve - year - old boy named Isaiah Johnson is masturbating when he is interrupted by his father, an acclaimed poet named Sidney, who apologizes and reassures him that the act is completely natural and to be expected . After he leaves, it is revealed that Isaiah was masturbating to a photograph of Sidney . Years later, at Isaiah's wedding party, his mother Joan sees Isaiah about to perform fellatio on a distressed - looking Sidney . While Joan is in the shower one night, Sidney leaves a typed memoir under her pillow entitled Cocoon Man, which chronicles the molestation he has endured at the hands of his son . Isaiah discovers the memoir and confronts Sidney, telling him that the memoir will be burned and that there will be consequences if another copy is printed . </P>

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