Sunday, August 16, 2015
The other self
The life of other people is largely unknown.
We only see the surface and, for the most part, accept what we see.
For the person who feels divided within hime or her self, this is not so simple.
Xavier Dolan, the Cannes winner and Canadian wunderkind has made a film for us to see how this might evolve, these selves, the division, the coming out to one's other self. The dominant one as it turns out.
Dolan does not appear in this one. The stars are Suzanne Clement who appeared in I Killed My Mother and Melvil Paupad. They both carry the film.
It is hard viewing. Transgender is not easy to understand. I have had trouble with it personally. But I have prevailed and now see this as another kind of being human which is not in my own experience. As a gay man, I always rebelled at the connotations of a compromised manhood. But there is nothing about this here and, indeed, even in cross dressing which is a totally different aspect of expressing one's self.
Not to get didactic here. Just to review the film and say that it is very moving and extremely well done and I will definitely see it again and again.
A 5 out of Neftflix5.
