Hot Docs Review: Be Like Others

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/28/hot-docs-review-be-like-others/
4/29/2008

"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."