Miss Dee and I are going to have dinner out and then go see The Danish Girl at them Midtown Art Cinema.  A friend and former co-worker of mine is between girlfriends so she wants to go with us.  I'm sure I'll be crying through at least a third of the movie.

I've thought about going , but I really don't think I could handle it. My problem with it even though I haven't seen it is the relationship between her and her wife. I've been alone my entire life hoping for someone to come into it and grieving so much all these years of no one being there I think I'd have a mental breakdown It's part of the reason I ended up in the suicide ward at the hospital. I've come such a long way since being on HRT I really can't risk the pain.

Well, I'm still on an emotional roller coaster from seeing it.  It is such a beautiful movie and I mean that separate from the subject of the film.  If you're an emotional person like me, it's at least a two tissue film.  I mentioned a friend was going with us to see it and normally she's a rather stoic lesbian.   At the end of the movie, she stuck her hand over to me and said, "Got any tissues left."  I'm not going to give any spoilers but I will say if they couldn't have found a trans person to play Einar/Lili, then no cis person could have been Lili better than Eddie Redmayne.  If he's not nominated for and doesn't win the Best Actor Oscar, nobody should get it!

yea, I'd probably end up in the Emergency room.

I understand Stephanie, there are definitely some triggers in it for some people.  But I HAD to go. 

I'm still thinking about it. I might go. I left The movie A Beautiful Mind 3 separate days I went to see it before I finally sat through it. I kept leaving when he got strapped down for the shock treatment.

Quote from: BeverlyAnn on December 23, 2015, 09:30:51 PM
I'm not going to give any spoilers but I will say if they couldn't have found a trans person to play Einar/Lili, then no cis person could have been Lili better than Eddie Redmayne. 

I felt that way about Lee Pace's portrayal of Calpernia Addams in the movie Soldier's Girl.

I'm not bothered by crying in the cinema (I ugly-cried like a baby at les mis and at the re-realease of the lion king lol) I just don't know anyone who'd see it with me... I'll probably wait for dvd

Quote from: Peep on December 24, 2015, 07:11:03 AM
I'm not bothered by crying in the cinema (I ugly-cried like a baby at les mis and at the re-realease of the lion king lol) I just don't know anyone who'd see it with me... I'll probably wait for dvd

Les Mis is one of my favorite movies ever.

O. K. girls I must live in a cave , what is "The Danish Girl" ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810819/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Quote from: kittenpower on December 24, 2015, 09:10:20 AM
Les Mis is one of my favorite movies ever.

Same, if i ever got to see it on stage I'd probably be asked to leave the theater

Quote from: lostcharlie on December 24, 2015, 10:33:11 AM
O. K. girls I must live in a cave , what is "The Danish Girl" ?

Well, there's a cherry Danish, a custard Danish , and a bunch of other flavors. I like the cherry the best.

Quote from: stephaniec on December 24, 2015, 12:24:52 PM
Well, there's a cherry Danish, a custard Danish , and a bunch of other flavors. I like the cherry the best.

Interestingly enough Danish pastries are actually Viennese... 

Quote from: lostcharlie on December 24, 2015, 10:33:11 AM
O. K. girls I must live in a cave , what is "The Danish Girl" ?

It is the mostly fiction story of Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.  It's based on the book The Danish Girl and on Lili's personal journals.  Lili was one of the first people ever to have what passed for SRS in 1930.

Quote from: BeverlyAnn on December 24, 2015, 01:19:48 PM
It is the mostly fiction story of Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.  It's based on the book The Danish Girl and on Lili's personal journals.  Lili was one of the first people ever to have what passed for SRS in 1930.

There are still a lot of post op complications with our modern techniques; I can't imagine what it was like for trans women back then. Did the movie show what she went through during her recovery?

Quote from: kittenpower on December 24, 2015, 01:34:28 PM
There are still a lot of post op complications with our modern techniques; I cant't imagine what it was like for trans women back then. Did the movie show what she went through during her recovery?

They showed Lili immediatly after the first surgery and mentioned giving her morphine. It was actually two surgeries months apart.  Apparently they did an orchi/penectomy and then months later created the vagina.  Don't understand that one but it was 1930.

When I had my surgery, it had been around for a while and it was a single stage surgery with an optional cosmetic revision but we were aware that a two stage surgery preceded it so the two stage was used for a while. John Hopkins was using a single stage surgery around 1964 but I am not sure when they went from two stage to single stage.