This time, it was Eddie Redmayne, who was 1.8 meters tall. In The Danish Girl, he plays Einar Wegener (Lili Elbe), the world's first Danish painter to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
In the film, the little freckles want to show the process of Aina's awakening to Lily. Under the original male body, a beautiful soul gradually wakes up, so that "he" can no longer accept the original body, thinking like a moth to a flame. To find a home that truly belongs to you.
The girl hidden in Aina's body is sometimes gorgeous and charming, sometimes shy and moving. She scratches her head and poses in front of the drawing board, which is surprisingly lively; she appears at the dance to amaze the audience, but she always bows her head shyly, and her eyelashes flutter in confusion when someone makes her good. Little freckles deserves to be the best actor in Oscar. He plays such a complex and tangled role well. Although it still seems a little embarrassing at times, he can quickly make the audience moved by his performance.
"He" stood in front of the mirror, taking off his coat piece by piece, staring at his body carefully, imagining it in his mind as a woman's plump and graceful appearance, hiding his abrupt organs, and continuing to immerse himself in self-intoxication.
Seeing this scene, I feel that the little freckles are really struggling this time. But compared to Hawking in "The Theory of Everything", his performance this time seems to be too ambitious, and it can't help but feel a little too hard.
The emotional foreshadowing in the first half of the film is a little thin, and Aina's female personality seems to wake up at the moment when his wife makes him wear women's clothes. Later, he added that when he was a child, he wore his grandmother's apron, and his friends of the same sex thought he was too beautiful and kissed him. However, the symptoms of bipolar depression and other symptoms of gender are slightly less, and it seems that the final decision to do surgery is a bit unnatural. After all, Aina paid a huge price to become Lily, and all this should have a stronger motivation to support him, not only obsessed with his own feminine beauty.
In those days, transgender people were still an obscure group, seen as pathological as gays and lesbians. In the film, Aina once walked down the street dressed in a neutral dress, showing a hint of coquettishness in his movements. He was indulging in the joy that could not be concealed, but he was stared at by two gangsters and beaten up.
Think of another movie, "Boys Don't Cry" in 1999, which tells another situation: a girl's body, a boy's heart. The owner announced that although Langton was born a girl, he always thought he should be a man. In the end, he was seen through, humiliated and brutally murdered.
Psychologists call such people's mental state "gender identity disorder" (or "gender incongruence"). They are a smaller group than homosexuals. In recent years, social movements to support LGBT groups have emerged, and people's understanding of Transgender has also increased a lot. A relatively new term, "genderqueer," is used to refer to a mixture of traits traditionally ascribed to males or females, or it can also be used to refer to "in the middle" that is often associated with transgender or transgenderism. (in between)" concept.
They are indeed born different, have richer experiences than ordinary people, and have to withstand unimaginable pressures and hardships. But they are not outcasts of God, they are very unique people.
Lili Elbe's courage and determination are admirable even in today's medical environment, not to mention the first surgery she faced at the time.
After a successful initial surgery, Lili enjoyed perhaps the happiest period of her life, working at the perfume counter of a department store, elegantly recommending products to ladies who came to pick out perfumes. In the story of the character prototype, Lili's marriage to his wife was dissolved after surgery, and then she fell in love with a French painter. At this time, she began to strongly want to have a complete female organ, that is, to have the ability to reproduce.
After the painful operation, the pale freckles woke up. "She" opened her mouth with difficulty and said word by word, "Now, I am a complete me." With a child-like smile, the corners of her eyes But a big teardrop rolled down. This scene is so heartbreaking.
Finally, she listened to Greta changing her name, Lily, to sleep forever with a serene smile.
At the cost of her life, she finally found her true and complete self.
In "Super Sense Hunting", the transgender Nomi once said such a sentence, the real violence, the violence that I think is unforgivable, is that we are afraid of becoming our true selves. (The real violence, the violence that I realized was unforgivable is the violence we do to ourselves, when we are afraid of to be who we really are.)
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