This story is the soul of the entire film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". It tells the story of a transgender man who was born in the old socialist East Germany and went to second-rate bars all over the United States to sell and sing while searching for true love while singing rock and roll. The reason why I think this movie is special is that the protagonist Hedwig is set as a transgender person whose sex reassignment surgery is unsuccessful. Six inches becomes one inch. It is like a joke that can be carried around and can be laughed at from time to time. Although he didn't say that few people would know, this infuriating inch was the source of all his misfortune.
On the other hand, Hedwig, who is neither a complete man nor a real woman, is actually referred to as "human" here. He himself didn't know which of those three kinds of people he belonged to. He simply believed in the existence of true love and the existence of his destined partner. He doesn't care if he is a man, woman, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, he can sacrifice everything, including gender, just for love. Both the sex reassignment surgery and the failure of the surgery can be seen as the price he paid for his love. At the end of the first love, he still chose to be a woman, even as a woman who has become more and more dressed up, because of his helplessness in survival and life. And he didn't tell his beloved 17-year-old Tommy his true gender, not because he didn't believe in love, but because he was afraid that what he encountered was not the half that he was destined for.
Hedwig said, "Obviously I have to find my partner. But is that him or her? What does this person look like? Like me? Or the opposite? Does my partner have something I don't have? Appearance? Luck. Love? We were really forced to separate, or was it just that he ran away with something good? Or I ran away? Does this person upset me? How about sex? That is to get us together again Is the reason for this? Or can two people really become one?"
Tommy is not the half, even if they loved it. Or, Tommy is that half, but the desire to become one of love and desire has been extinguished in the norms of the world. Whether or not Tommy is destined, Hedwig will continue to look for it. At the end of the film, the back of Hedwig, who takes off his wig and walks naked in the alley in the middle of the night, seems to be telling us, no matter who it is, use your true side to find true love!
In short, I think this is a movie that transcends pure homosexuality. It should be a story about people and true love that transcends gender.
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