brave and free

Zena 2022-10-26 02:53:19

The film is based on real people and tells the story of a Danish couple in the 1920s and 1930s, both painters, who became famous in the painting world. By chance, the gender identity dislocation that her husband had buried in his heart since childhood was inspired, and he gradually discovered that he was a woman inside. It was the man, the husband, who became the beautiful woman Lily he imagined, and even in the end, he mustered the greatest courage to undergo sex reassignment surgery and become a real woman. Although the wife fell into the abyss of pain, she resolutely supported all her husband's decisions. At the end of the film, the husband died in his wife's arms due to a failed operation. At the end of the film, a subtitle pays homage to the prototype of her husband, Erna Moens Wegener, the first known man to undergo gender reassignment surgery, calling him a pioneer. The plot of the story is not complicated, but the emotions expressed and the connotations behind it are very profound and touching. Most people's so-called love is not so much love for each other as it is to love themselves, to love themselves in the eyes of the other party, or See another self in the other person, or hope that the self with each other can become better. However, the purest and most fearless love in the world is to love each other thoroughly and support each other's dreams, no matter how shocking the other party's dream is, and even the realization of this dream will lead to the other party's departure. The real love is to let the other person be him (her) himself. There are so many people, how many people can do it?

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The Danish Girl quotes

  • Dr. Hexler: Tell me about Lili... Where did she come from?

    Einar Wegener: Inside of me.

  • Gerda Wegener: It's hard for a man to be looked at by a woman. Women are used to it, of course, but for a man to submit to a woman's gaze - it's unsettling. Although I believe there's some pleasure to be had from it, once you yield.