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I watched "Girl" last night, because it was too late, I only watched three-quarters of it, and I left the last point to watch after I woke up this morning. Coincidentally, when I got up, I flipped through my phone and saw a video posted by beauty blogger Nikki, who came out of the closet and admitted that he was transgender.
The original intention of watching this movie is very simple: the topic has never been less popular + the poster is so beautiful + lgbt and ballet are the topics I am interested in. In the introduction of the film, I probably learned about the characters and environment set in the film - a transgender person supported by his father's family is trying to become a ballet dancer while also trying to become a real woman. The mental and physical torment in this one can be imagined.
The film starts from an early morning. The warm sunshine and the blond sister and brother, the sister stretches her legs alone, and the dialogue between the ear pierced sister and the father all create a very harmonious family atmosphere. The interview at the dance school, etc., showed that the heroine is striving to become a ballet dancer. So far, the director has not directly stated the identity of the heroine as transgender. Knowing that the heroine took off her underwear in the clinic and exposed her body for the first time, the identity of the heroine was hinted for the first time. It was made clear in the psychological consultation room that the heroine was trying her best to become a real girl (with hormone therapy).
In the process of psychological consultation, the doctor mentioned that the heroine should not be cranky, and the heroine's character can be seen from this - taciturn, shy, and sensitive. This seems to be a common feature of many transgender people, because the difference between their psychological gender and biological gender, the incomprehension and even ridicule of the people around them, have led to their lack of self-confidence and even low self-esteem. We can also see in the film that whether it is a psychologist, a doctor, or the heroine's father, or even her young brother, they all respect her and are working hard for her to become a biological girl . But lara (the heroine) is always suffering because of the physical difference.
This torment intensified as she fell behind in the basics of dance, ridiculed and sarcastic by her classmates, and her physical condition declined. Despite the support of her father, elders, and doctors, Lara still feels that she is not doing enough. The tape on her private parts and her feet tore her flesh and blood, as if her heart was also torn apart, gradually peeling off the real her and the one whose biological sex is male. In the end, she did not perform on the stage, but she completed her transformation into a real woman with her own hands.
# some details
When the psychiatrist asked Lara, Lara still felt that she was not a girl. At the birthday party, the family vaguely mentioned whether Lara had undergone sex reassignment surgery and Lara's answer was "still a boy". Lara also looked forward to the fast delivery of hormone drugs. She brought about some physiological changes and volunteered to increase the dose of the drug to achieve the desired effect.
When her classmates asked her why she didn't take a bath, she hesitated and resisted.
These are Lara's inability to accept herself because of her physical differences. This lack of self-acceptance brought endless pain to her psychology, so that she constantly forced herself to complete the physical castration by herself and obtain psychological relief.
#about dance shooting
When Lara is rehearsing, the camera always follows her, mostly using medium and close-up shots, deliberately ignoring the classmates, dance partners and teachers next to her, fully highlighting Lara herself Sweat-soaked training suits tell the audience that being a ballet dancer is as important to Lara as being a real girl.
This shooting method is also used in the movie "Black Swan", all to express the inner feelings of the heroine - the desire to go on stage and the love for dancing.
In the end, after Lara fainted, her father didn't wake her up in the morning and locked the door to prevent her from participating in the rehearsal. This passage is also similar to that of the heroine in "Black Swan" after she fell into paranoia because of rehearsal. Her mother did not let her continue to participate in the rehearsal. Way.
#about confused
Although it is a film showing the troubles received by LGBT people, all these confusions and troubles can extend to the growth path of all teenagers.
First love and sex attempts and failures, incompatibility due to some differences, school violence, estrangement from parents and family (in the film, even if the father and younger brother understand Lara again, she also has difficulties that she is unwilling to mention to her father, And the younger brother is still young and can't fully understand her pain. When he is sad and resists going to school, he still calls out Lara's name when he was a boy).
#there is no
After reading the information, I realized that this is the director's debut. It's amazing. Except for some small details and some very subtle flaws in the script level, the degree of completion is really very high. The shooting techniques, lens movements, color composition and even It can be evaluated as "old way".
It's really worth it to download the source of the film for several days.
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