It should have been last night. It was quite late. I wanted to sleep but didn't want to sleep. I tossed and turned on the computer. I accidentally saw the problem to be solved. I squinted my eyes and looked at it. After an hour and a half, my eyes became sore and painful, but I couldn't bear to close them. After reading it, I couldn't help but want to write something.
All because of that 15-year-old Alex.
Alex is the protagonist of the film. The male protagonist is also the female protagonist. Since Alex is intersex, that's the correct answer for XXY, I didn't guess right. Alex came into this world because of a passion his parents had on the beach. In order to keep this secret, the whole family left Buenos Aires shortly after birth, and moved to a small, quiet fishing village not far from Uruguay after many moves. For 15 years, Alex has been raised by his parents as a girl, but she was born into a beautiful girl, but there is another him hidden in her clothes. And as I get older, I have to take daily medication to stop my beard and Adam's apple from groaning. But in the most remote place and the most deliberate secrecy, Alex and her (his) family still can't escape the huge inner pressure and worldly peeping eyes.
The film tells the story from the arrival of the plastic surgeon's family. The whole film shows the huge contradictions and sufferings faced by this warm but depressing family, including the mother who invited the doctor on her own initiative. She made this decision obviously in the hope that Alex will accept the penisectomy and say goodbye to the terrible past, but it is very difficult. Soon she realized that everything was not so simple. The center of the conflict is poor Alex. The dilemma she (he) faces is desperate. It is not only the choice of being a man or a woman, but the more difficult choice is the choice of surgery, that is, whether to let it belong to her (him). The body keeps the selection intact. I think it's this difficult exploration of this dilemma that is what makes Alex, the film director, and XXY so attractive and so revered.
Choice is a combination of happiness and pain. Everyone, no matter XX, XY, or XXY, is faced with a variety of choices all the time, most choices are irrelevant, most choices are more than two options, there is a lot of room, the most troublesome is the dilemma , either one or the other, the two must be chosen, there is no middle way. The old topic of "saving your girlfriend first or saving your mother first" that Boyou raved about recently that made her disgusted and disdainful was used by women who like romance to play romance, but it is this boring and vulgar question, but also How many helpless men have been and will continue to be in a dilemma. And the famous moral dilemma devised by American psychologist Kohlberg, to torture children and test their ability to choose whether to violate the rules and steal medicine to save the wife, or follow the rules and cannot afford the medicine and let the wife wait to die. Moral development is also a kind of cruelty.
In reality, saving lives is a choice when not both the girlfriend and the mother are in danger at the same time, but not saving is also a choice. Although there are only two results, in most cases it is not too difficult. Uniformed soldiers, I am afraid it is a dilemma. The plot designed by Kohlberg is currently being staged in some people. As for life and death, such as whether to sell stocks or stay, postgraduate entrance examination or employment, whether to start all over or bite the bullet... The dilemma is that there is no escape. , It's hard to be afraid to face the heart.
What impressed me about Alex was that she (he) decided to keep her body intact after experiencing the contradictions and struggles that ordinary people can't understand, and even after being forcibly pressed by a few gangsters and forced to take off her pants, this choice seems unbelievable. , but it is a strong defense that puts everything aside. When she (he) suffered great insults, the cry of helplessness, despair, fear, and hysteria when the source of her (his) pain and struggle was forcibly exposed, reverberated for a long time.
Listening to his heart and living for himself, Alex chose to endure new tremors after trembling. Therefore, rather than saying that the film shows the survival problem of the third sex, it is better to discuss the attitude of insisting and changing, defending and surrendering to struggle. If XXY is regarded as an unknown, then the director has given her a clear answer.
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