Discussion about movies with a transgendered theme

[ila]

Originally Posted by stephanie4life

I don't get it. I've seen Blade Runner 1000 times,how does it have anything to do with transgender? I thought it was about Deckard killing illegal "skin jobs"

I agree with you stephanie. I've only seen Blade Runner once and that was enough for me. I didn't see any theme in the movie, let alone a transgender theme. The whole movie seemed to me to nothing but unintelligble dialogue and lots of killing.

Originally Posted by ila

I agree with you stephanie. I've only seen Blade Runner once and that was enough for me. I didn't see any theme in the movie, let alone a transgender theme. The whole movie seemed to me to nothing but unintelligble dialogue and lots of killing.

Well I can see a correlation. But it's very vague. :/
I also don't like the movie.

[stephanie4life]

Originally Posted by ThirdEyeGirl

Well I can see a correlation. But it's very vague. :/
I also don't like the movie.

Well please explain the vague correlation, what am I overlooking?

[postopadmirer]

I'm trying to think of any movies where the transgender element was a surprise besides the "crying game" of course. I know there have been a couple where I said "oh I did not see that coming".

There is one I only saw then end of where a guy (in a girls body) is faced with killing somebody who's brain is in his (male) body. And he (as a girl) does kill him. Meaning he is now stuck as a girl. It was on Scifi a couple years ago and I have never been able to find it since. Don't now what it is called something like "daybreak" "daylight" something like that.

Of course there is also xchange. Staring one of the Baldwins.

[DeaconBlues]

There was one movie that seems to be missing in this discussion, maybe because it was such a LOUSEY movie, LOUSEY book, "written" by a big time fake and liar... and the movie is....

"The Heart Is Decietful Above All Things" written bye "J.T. LeRoy" <- a woman who passed herself off as a teenage boy who endured horrible abuse at the hands of a meth addict mother and a bible-thumping zealot preacher grandfather.

It was a lousey move based on a total lie, an "autobiography" of a boy who was horribly abused, but the FICTION was in fact written by a woman, who obviously had an axe to grind and just told the sad tale and tried to act like she had actually lived it, she had not.

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Deceitfu.../dp/1582342113

I would tell any friend to NOT rent the movie, it is just a collection of sick abuse and overall depressing. When it was first released, a lot of "decent people" just loved it because it seemed to perfectly confirm all of the extreme right wing propaganda. You can see the only two minutes of the movie that is worth watching on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8tVSiq2s4Y