What movie helps you with being trans?

[mr_marc]

Can be trans or none trans=]

Me personally? Pracilla Queen of the Desert, puts a much much lighter out look on the whole thing. And the Rocky Horror Show XD

[NickSister]

ShortBus

makes me believe that there are places and people out there where I belong

[debbiej]

I like Tootsie - I like the way Dustin Hoffman learns how to be a better man by being a woman. In other words a better human. Here's the quote that makes me cry: "Look, you don't know me from Adam. But I was a better man with you, as a woman... than I ever was with a woman, as a man. You know what I mean? I just gotta learn to do it without the dress." I've been trying so hard for so long to be a man that I am re learning how to be the female that I really am. I need to learn how to be that person in a dress. Its a twist.

I also really like Birdcage - I love that Nathan Lane has affirmed his sexual identity so totally that his difficulty is trying to act like a man. His imitation of the John Wayne walk is hilarious and Robin William's comment that the walk was perfect is right on. Put a wig and a dress on John Wayne when he's doing his swagger and he'd be a convincing woman from behind.

I like these two movies together for the juxtaposition of the two characters.

Debbie

[Audrey]

HAHA, ditto Mr Marc ditto.

Audrey

[Alyssa M.]

I just loved Ed Wood. It's really cheesy, but incredibly funny and poignant at the same time. Everybody in the movie is such a freak that it makes Ed Wood's crossdressing seem pedestrian. I think it really puts the trans issues in their proper place: unavoidable and unhideable, but always secondary to love and loyalty to your friends.

[soldierjane]

"Ma vie en rose" really helped me loosen up all the feelings I'd tried to hide from since I was a child. It's a really sweet movie.

[dawn]

Pinocchio
"I'm a real.... wait wtf :S

[mr_marc]

HAHA, ditto Mr Marc ditto.

Audrey

Me and my friend, he's a part time drag queen started singing some of the songs from it in school once loool.
And pinoccio, ah how i can relate to yew!

[Sandy]

The one that hits it for me is "Better than Chocolate".

It's primarily a touching lesbian love story.  But one of the supporting characters is a post operative woman who is deeply in love with one of the other female characters.  Their interplay is touching and funny.

She also sings "I am NOT a ->-bleeped-<-ing ->-bleeped-<-!" in a cabaret scene that is absolutely hilarious!

-Sandy

[mr_marc]

Hehe sounds amusing,
it has to be the utter flambiounce of 'Pracilla' that helps me cope.
Especially Adam! XD

[Rachael]

Pricilla is awesome great film.....
personally found trans america utter poo and unwatchable, and made me want to stab the main character repeatedly with a blunt object...

Camp is a good one for my self esteem issues....



What movie has helped me most?


Apocalypse now.....



do the math it makes sense.
R >

[soldierjane]

What movie has helped me most?

Apocalypse now.....

do the math it makes sense.
R >

I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!!!  

[Pica Pica]

The film American Splendour helps me when I feel down.

[Alyssa M.]

do the math it makes sense.
R >

Uh, my vector calculus seems to be failing me --- you got a hint?

[lady amarant]

Not a trans film in sight, but here's the list:

When I'm sad and in need of a bit of hope: Love Actually, because maybe, just maybe love really does conquer all.

When I'm absolutely pissed off at society's narrow-mindedness : Fight Club. What can I say, the world according to Tyler Durden is my world.

[Alyssa M.]

Blech...

Fight Club really ticked me off.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Okay, so it was a dystopia. Why doesn't everyone get that? It's as if people read 1984 and are all, Gee, I totally LOVE Big Brother!!!

(Yeah, yeah, everyone always gives me grief for not liking Fight Club. Fire away.)

[lady amarant]

Blech...

Fight Club really ticked me off.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Okay, so it was a dystopia. Why doesn't everyone get that? It's as if people read 1984 and are all, Gee, I totally LOVE Big Brother!!!

(Yeah, yeah, everyone give me grief for not liking Fight Club. Fire away.)

Hey, I wasn't exactly cheering the line either, but as an attack on affluenza, consumerism, commodified culture and all the other nasty bits, it just spoke to my little Anarchist soul. And since I lay the blame for our suffering at the feet of narrow, selfish patriarchal societies, of which the modern business world is just the latest incarnation, Fight Club spoke as much to my gender issues as it did to my sense of social justice.

But in all fairness, it was an exceptionally violent movie, and Tyler was a seriously misogynistic arse. That I do agree on!

[lady amarant]

I dunno, while I like a lot of movies with trans things in them, like Rocky Horror and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I have yet to find any movie that actually helps me with being trans.

Even when a movie tries to be sensitive to trans issues, it's still probably going to have been made for cissexuals by cissexuals.

I have to agree on that. While movies like TransAmerica for example, may help to raise awareness (slightly) of and about us, I find them of little value personally. If I had to choose "trans" films that have really helped me, they'd be documentaries - HBO's Middle Sexes, and Sundance's Transgeneration the ones that 'spoke' to me most.

[shanetastic]

I dunno, while I like a lot of movies with trans things in them, like Rocky Horror and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I have yet to find any movie that actually helps me with being trans.

Even when a movie tries to be sensitive to trans issues, it's still probably going to have been made for cissexuals by cissexuals.


There are several movies that help me with being in general though, such as Little Miss Sunshine. I love that movie to death.

Going to agree with redfish on this one.

I also am going to have to list Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to my list as well as Little Miss Sunshine

[lady amarant]

I also adore What the Bleep Do We Know?

I need to try that body-writing thing she did and see if it makes my life any better.

Yeah! I forgot all about that one! Thanks Redfish! That was a great movie...