The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)

[TGM]

THE DANISH GIRL

Director: Tom Hooper

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[Mal]

Alicia Vikander is so wonderful but she and Redmayne had no chemistry together. And his performance is meh, he essentially wants to be a woman to be shy and giddy and not do anything else...? This is woefully thin storytelling.

Tom Hooper also totally squanders any character depth by confusing transvestites and transgender persons. Kind of annoying, it plays into fears that your average uneducated hater has regarding modern transgender reasons for not accepting their outer born gender.

[TGM]

So I'm starting to wish I had given this a nay instead.

The more I think of this, and a lot of the things Redmayne's character says and does as the story goes along, the more it really started to bother me, because this movie's trying to sell a powerful message, trying to convince us that this is a real trauma he's going through that many people today suffer from as well. But, quite frankly, some of his actions actually do come across as mental health issues more than anything regarding gender, specifically when he completely disassociates himself from his life as Einer, claiming that that man is dead, and that Alicia Vikander was never married to the person he is now. I dunno about you, but that sounds like a load of fucking bullshit to me. You changed your gender, sure, but that doesn't mean you're not still the same person. And his insistence that this is the case, that these are two entirely separate identities, two individual personalities, just kinda got my mind thinking, how accurate is this movie as it concerns the struggles of transgender people really?

So I looked it up and came across this site: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/01/16191/

And, yeah, reading that actually does answer some questions, but also raises other ones, such as, are movies such as this that are trying to be progressive actually being irresponsible? I dunno, I still feel I'm too ignorant on the subject to form a proper opinion, but it does leave me thinking. I'm also sharing this here in case anyone else here may be more informed on the topic who might want to chime in.

[number8]

This is a great discussion of the movie: https://thewalrus.ca/seeing-lili-elbe/

[Lazlo]

Eddie Redmayne: Are we sure he's good?