Film Recommendation — Page 3

I liked Youth a lot. It was like the 8 1/2 to The Great Beauty's La Dolce Vita. I agree that that one scene was warmed over Fellini, and I rolled my eyes at it a bit, but it won me back with the stunning ending and the performance of the "Simple Song." Still, I hope Sorrentino goes back to making Sorrentino films rather than Fellini films. I still think Il Divo is his masterpiece.

Yeah, The Danish Girl was based on the novel which was a fictionalized account of the story. Regardless, I loved the film for what it was and I could easily see Oscars for art direction, costumes, score and Redmayne.

My husband found it offensive as well, but I thought it a very natural way for someone in the mid-1920's to use to explain what they were feeling inside before any of our current terms for the trans condition were coined.

Me, too. I also find it offensive that one person's modern day perspective is found to be the voice of experience for every trans person from every era, which makes absolutely no sense. It's sort of like my condemning Oscar Wilde's personal experience as a gay man because it wasn't how I felt or what I experienced. And the whole "grandmas" thing is about as ageist and offensive as it gets. I'd love for Fantod to explain that point of view to my 70 year-old mother who is also a "grandma" and tell her how she couldn't possibly comprehend a modern understanding of trans individuals.

No, I'm insulting the grandmas who will see this and assume it applies to all trans people.

So, you're insulting them based on your own assumption of them. Or your assumption of their assumption. How does that make you different or better than them? And why do you and your friend believe there is only one trans experience for every trans individual that has nothing to do with the context of trans as individuals and the influence of society and information of past eras?

No, this wasn't the film adaptation of Man Into Woman. Would that have been more interesting? Maybe. Perhaps that film will be made. And perhaps we will find ways to be offended by that as well. Or perhaps not. Meanwhile, we'll keep searching for that factually accurate biographical non-documentary Hollywood film and maybe catch a leprechaun or a unicorn along the way and have all our dreams come true.

Updated On: 1/1/16 at 03:00 PM

First Fanton said this - "No, I'm insulting the grandmas who will see this and assume it applies to all trans people."

Oh dear, why would you want to insult grandmas?

Then Fanton said this - "No I'm basing it on the fact that I saw it with my grandma and that is what she thought."

So, again Fantod thinks that one person's experience is everybody's. Poor Fantod, I think he got all discombobulated in his own thoughts.

No I'm basing it on the fact that I saw it with my grandma and that is what she thought.

And you applied it to all grandmas. Which is what you DON'T want the grandmas to do when it comes to trans people. Got it.

PLEASE read this

http://letterboxd.com/glazomaniac/film/the-danish-girl/