Being true to yourself is beautiful.

Jean 2022-02-27 08:02:13

*Written in February 2005

[Beautiful Boxer], it is the most tender and peaceful about transgender people in the movies I have seen.

A few years ago, [shemale volleyball], which was in full swing, is funny and happy, but for transgender people, it is not a kind of ridicule and ridicule.


The movie is based on the true story of boxer Long Tang, who went to boxing to raise funds for sex change, and finally got his wish.
Director Ekachai Uekrongtham made the story beautifully and movingly. Long Tang, a poor boy from a poor family, climbed to the peak of the fighting stage step by step, and few people know the bitterness of it. Long Tang smeared powder and performed dances on the ring, and the audience under the stage regarded it as a spectacle and couldn't stop teasing. In actual combat, Long Tang responded to the scorn of those bored with his superb Muay Thai skills.
This human-like film seems to be recounting the growth history of Longtang. He liked the appearance of girls since he was a child, but he embarked on the road of fighting in ignorance.
He encountered many people in his life. Agree and disagree. trust and deceit. To love and not to love. He finally felt flowers and applause in the hall of success. But no amount of brilliance could solve his sexual woes.
He once told his parents that if he did not change, he would not have the confidence to live in this world.

Gender orientation has always been controversial in this gender-neutral world. The injustice and humiliation suffered by Long Tang may be much more than in the movie.
Real life is always more painstaking.


Long Tang and Japanese women held a ring match, more like a colosseum. Everyone entertained them as playthings, and Longtang finally realized that everything in life can only get the greatest happiness from the heart.
At the end of the film, a little boy imitates the dress of the Dragon and Tang fighters and performs a fat powder dance. Long Tang asked him, are you willing to do this? The little boy shook his head. Long Tang told him that if you want to be happy, you must remember everything from your heart.
This is the "preaching" at the end of the film, but it's not vulgar or deliberate at all. Transgender is just an attitude towards life, not a hypocritical package that has caught the handle.
[Beautiful Boxer] The proposition of life and attitude towards life finally made this movie with transgender people a gimmick to be sublimated in a real sense.


The cinematography of the film is also very beautiful, and the dignified pictures always accompany Longtang's growth step by step, without being obscene at all; in the paragraph where Longtang was trained in Muay Thai, the director spared no effort to make the background simple and beautiful, accompanied by The shadow of Muay Thai's gestures fully shows the charm of boxing.
Since the Thai movie "Boxing Fighter" became a big hit around the world, Muay Thai has become a killer for Thai movies to grab the market. The clean and neat shooting of Longtang's ring competition also made this film with a slightly literary temperament highly observable.

At the end of the film, Longtang is waiting for the bus at the bus stop. The author expresses his life in a very intentional way. At the bus stop, Longtang, who was a wandering monk in childhood to a transgender female model, is listed in the bus station. Some kind of source and result of life. The intentional approach, used in more than one place in the film, is very impressive.
[Beautiful Boxing Champion], who has been recognized by several awards, is indeed well deserved.

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Beautiful Boxer quotes

  • Nong Toom: It seems like the more makeup I put on, the harder my opponents kick me, so I kick them back harder.

  • [Nong kisses a defeated, dazed and barely conscious opponent]

    Nong Toom: The crowd love it whenever I did that, especially the reporters, but they don't know that I kiss to say, "I'm sorry, I don't like to hurt strangers, but in the ring you have no choice."