Lara is a boy.
She wants to be a girl.
The seemingly contradictory sentence is the core of the whole film.
The many physical cues from the beginning of the film, the consultations of psychological and physiological doctors, the constant self-examination in the mirror, and the "Victor" blurted out by the six-year-old brother, all let us understand that Lara is actually a boy, or, This is a girl trapped in a male body.
Fifteen years old, never wearing ballet shoes before, admitted to the best dance school in the country, on the one hand sharing a dressing room with women; on the other hand, hiding his body and secretly taking hormone drugs; It's bound to be difficult.
While watching this film, I can't help but think of
From the beginning of the film, the director took us to understand everything about Lara from a subjective inferiority perspective, and this kind of inferiority perspective from beginning to end, coupled with acts such as bullying and self-mutilation, is undoubtedly forcing Gain "empathy" and make people feel sorry for the protagonist.
In fact, many things don't need to be so cruel. It's meaningless to break something apart and show it to others, and it's not high-level. Throughout the whole film, this "Haneke" style of handling makes the fairness, which is subjectively corrected due to gender misalignment, somewhat deformed.
Seeing the end, she was willing to let the incident go back to the time. Lara came out of the psychiatrist, dressed in a dress, thinking about the boy she had a crush on, and was walking home. Lara stopped in the street, across the fence, watching the little girls who were born women play freely, and smiled knowingly. They were originally the same.
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