Yes, "she" is Gerda's husband, Einar Wegner. Last year's Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne swept the leading roles of the film with fluttering eyelashes and a charming figure.
It's not easy to be an actor these days. If you want to make a name for yourself in Hollywood, it has long been useless to play homosexuality or passion drama. There is still a glimmer of hope that you can play the mentally handicapped, disabled, and perverted well. If you are willing to have a body and a face If you are willing to make yourself ugly, old, or even transgender, that is worth seeing. In "The Danish Girl", Eddie made the biggest appearance since the movie: completely naked in the mirror, hiding his male organs, and fantasizing about being a woman. Eddie in women's clothes is simply amazing, and his gestures are full of amorous feelings. Standing with a beauty like Alicia, he is not inferior. You know, he played the paraplegic Hawking last year! Such reckless efforts certainly paid off, and the little freckled classmate won another Oscar nomination for himself.
"The Danish Girl" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous American writer David Eberhof. Although a fictional work, it is based on the real experience of Danish painter Einar Wegener - he was the first person in the world to undergo sex reassignment surgery and later died of organ rejection. She was 48 when she died, and her name was Lily Alber. Lily once wrote a book about her experiences: "Man Into Woman", which later became the inspiration for David Eberhof. In 2014, 83 years after Lily's death, Denmark became the first European country in the world to legally change gender without a medical certificate, and "The Danish Girl", a film about transgender people, was funded by the Copenhagen Film Fund. Filming will be funded.
LGBT is a concept often mentioned in recent years in film and television. A person who identifies with one's own internal gender identity and is born with a biological gender incompatibility. Einar is transgender.
If you still don't understand this concept, you can compare it with another popular LGBT film "Carol": the two protagonists in "Ka" are very clear from the beginning to the end, and they are very convinced that they are women, love Also women, they are gay; and when the "Danish girl" is Einar, he loves his wife Gerda, and when she becomes Lily, it is men like Sundar and Hans who make her heart flutter . Apparently, despite the gender change, he's always been "heterosexual" when it comes to his sexuality.
Gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender, these concepts are clearly defined today, but in Lily's time meant a difficult road to identity. A not-to-be-ignored missing character in the film is Einar's father. As an adult, Einar always remembered that he wore his grandmother's apron when he was a child. His friend Hans thought it was cute, so he kissed him. As a result, his father, who saw this scene, kicked Hans out of the house in a rage. In this story, the father becomes a symbol of power and tradition, and he represses Einar's female psyche with violence. In fact, in the transition from male to female, Einar (Lily) not only experienced the dual search of her own mind and body, but also needed to face the re-construction of the surrounding interpersonal relationships and social identity. When Lily made her public appearance with Gerda for the first time, as soon as she stepped into the hall, the gazes of countless men followed her, so overwhelming her that she could barely lift her head. This kind of male aggressive gaze was obviously unfamiliar to her. Later, Lily went out wearing unisex clothes alone. In the park, two gangsters teased her with words without any scruples, and even chased after her without any scruples. This kind of insolent attack is tacitly tolerated in male society to reflect the attitude towards women. , and the contempt of some men who are "not like men, not men enough". How to adapt and face all this is far more difficult than learning to wear makeup, walking in high heels, and sometimes more excruciating than the physical pain of surgery.
On the contrary, women represented by his wife Gerda and dancer friend Ula have a tolerant attitude towards Einar’s behavior (the contrast between the positions of male and female groups also prompted Einar to turn to feminism to a certain extent. side). Although Gerda struggled as a wife watching her husband sneak out to meet other people and witness him kissing men, when various doctors considered Elda an "endocrine disorder, homosexual, mentally ill, insane" At times, only she was always by his side. Interestingly, the important message "there is a place in the world for sex reassignment surgery" was passed on to Gerda by Ulla, who then accompanied her husband to complete it, reflecting their commitment to "gender conversion". Approved. 100 years ago, it was the era when the banner of "women's liberation" was held high. How powerful are these two fashion-leading artistic women!
Lily's first operation was successful, she finally erased her physical masculinity and achieved psychological rebirth through physical castration. But her second operation failed, and in the end, she failed to build a vagina that belongs to women, so, strictly speaking, "she" is not a complete woman. "Who was I before I was born, and who was I when I was born?" Lily has already answered such a question: to find her true self, at the cost of her life.
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