XXy
by Lucia Puenzo
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Actor: German Palacios, Ines Efron, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Martin Piroyanski, Ricardo DarinDirector: Lucia Puenzo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Film Movement
DVD Reviews of XXy
DVD Review: Quietly Simple, Emotionally Complex
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm still reeling from watching this film last night. I'd watched it because someone had mentioned seeing it (a friend on Facebook) and she'd described it as "disturbing." Living in PA, a relatively conservative area, I'm assuming now it was not a positive "disturbing" that she inferred.
My take away on this film was it's beautiful simplicity. I ache for the decisions and categorization that those who are not "gender specific" must go through. It can not be easy. But who are we to make these breathing, living, emotional people feel that they must categorize themselves? The girl, Alex whom this story is about summed it up perfectly "maybe there is no choice." I'd like to know more about the background of this film, the actors, etc. But taking it as a movie, I know there are many who have had to deal with this situation and it can't be easy. Are we as society forcing them to deal with what they were born as/with? Yes, to some extent we are. But we must also realize that with both male and female traits and body aspects, comes hormonal signals that must be very difficult to deal with. Knowing that you look like a girl on the outside, but act with agression at times due to the male aspects of yourself, yet being attracted to one particular sex or both, can not make it any easier.
It is a two fold (society and self) anxiety that these folks must deal with (just as transgendered/transexual folks deal with). Some don't have both sets of genitalia but their minds or bodies often do not agree with the physical representation that they present, male or female. We as a society have a long way to go to accept people as they are. Who are we to judge? We can not know what a person feels (unless it is ourself!).
I love this film, the contrast of the simplicity of dialogue, the slow pace of the film with the extreme pain this character was experiencing. The beautiful thing in this film was the undying support that her parents provided. They had the option to have the situation surgically "taken care of" at Alex's birth, however they opted not to, the father stating that when Alex was born "she was perfect."
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