Quote from: zombieinc on July 07, 2013, 09:08:23 PM
Youtube is always a good place to look for the weirdness. I've spent a fair amount of time poking around those dark youtube-ian spaces in my day.

Tomboy is an excellent movie, imo. I watch a lot of subbed stuff, so I'm ok with subtitles. The story is easy to follow and it's a pretty true-to-life sort of movie. The main characters are all kids, ranging from 5-12. The lead character, Laure/Mikal, is probably about 10 or 11. It cut me like a knife to watch some parts of the movie because I identified so much with many of things Laure/Mikal went through. Also because the mother was kind of a jerk and there is some obvious kiddie romance stuff in there that just made me go back to middle school. The movie is very well-done and I like that all of the kid characters are real. In fact, most of them were first-timers who had never done any acting before. Some scenes are clearly just them playing around, goofing off, hanging out, etc. It's the only movie I've seen that even touches on issues specific to trans or gq or questioning kids.

I'm not grossed out by body hair. I have a ton of it, so I guessed I've learned not to let it bother me over the years, lol. The things that bother me is not the hair, but the ingrown hairs. Jebus, I get a lot of them and they suck. A lot. Shaving my body hair is a real pain in the ass, so I'm glad that my previous partners were ok with me being hairy. No love could make me endure the hardships of universal, new growth itchiness.

Glad to clear up the whole YMMV thing.

That does sound pretty good. I like when movies are realistic. How do they pronounce Mikal? Is it like Michael, Mih-kale, or Mih-call? I ask because my dog's name is Mikal and pronounced like Mih-call. Although, we usually just call her Mika, pronounced like Mee-kah.

QuoteThat does sound pretty good. I like when movies are realistic. How do they pronounce Mikal? Is it like Michael, Mih-kale, or Mih-call? I ask because my dog's name is Mikal and pronounced like Mih-call. Although, we usually just call her Mika, pronounced like Mee-kah.

It is pronounced in what I assumed is the French variant of Michael, MEE-KEL. There are some subtle differences between the way characters say the name, probably due to accents.

I don't recall the name being said much though, so it might not be that big of a deal. The main character goes by his female name (Laure, French version of of Laura) at home, where about half of the movie takes place. The rest of the time when he is passing as male, the name is not used that much, since a lot of day-to-day talk in French uses pronouns (he, his, she, her, etc) and not the actual names of the characters involved.

Hope you enjoy it.