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Hot Docs Review: Be Like Others

Started by Shana A, April 28, 2008, 02:44:49 PM

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Shana A

April 28, 2008, 02:44:49 PM

Hot Docs Review: Be Like Others

Posted Apr 28th 2008 3:02PM by Monika Bartyzel

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/28/hot-docs-review-be-like-others/

There is one moment in Tanaz Eshaghian's Be Like Others that starts by plucking at our insistent hopes for happiness. Hungry for love and affection from his family, Ali Askar tells a story about being thrilled when his father insisted that Ali have breakfast with him. While it was such a simple action, it was one with insistence that Ali had never seen before. This act seemed full of the loving camaraderie and acceptance that the young man had dreamed of. His father poured them tea, but Ali refused to drink it; he realized that this wasn't a warm act of fatherly love. This wasn't a breakthrough moment in their relationship. Ali's father was trying to kill him with rat poison. His father would rather kill his son than allow him to get the sex change that he yearns for.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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