I have read director Tom Hooper must be mighty proud Judith Butler. Every modern spiritual science student could play bingo with the trend concepts of gender studies that are runtergeleiert in his film The Danish Girl : Performance, views, identity. Masterfully Hooper has made the life story of Danish artists Einar and Gerda Wegener pair (Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander) dissected out any drama and they transferred into shallow 21st century. The Wegener living in Copenhagen twenties where Einar sold with some success his landscapes. Gerda’s career however, flourishes only when it finds the right motive. When a model is prevented, she grabs her husband in stockings and ballet shoes, whereupon their Muse Born: Lili Elbe. Was not intended that this assumes a life of its own. Einar full of love will eventually really Lili, supported by Gerda. In Paris, the couple learns the German Dr. Warnekros (Sebastian Koch), who will perform in Dresden at the first sex reassignment surgery Lili history.
Man wished The Danish Girl would have been a better film, a bold and open representation of the emotional chaos, the pain, the Lili’s appearance triggered got to. In Hooper’s version history smothered under a thick layer conventions, as stiff as the starched collar of tuxedos to the many parties. And only the kitsch: The Danish Girl has coagulated into a sugar tart, the moral well-being gives the liberal, cosmopolitan audience: A transgender woman, how sweet, we are so proud of her courage. Only a personality they should rather not have. If Lili ever is the eponymous protagonist.
Only once drops the name “Danish Girl”. Einars childhood friend, a successful art dealer in Paris, speak the words into the phone – he said Gerda. Because it is Gerda’s story, their way of dealing with the changes that their development that gives the film an emotional anchor point. When The Danish Girl has been shown in Toronto at the film festival, noted one critic of the film follow the new trend to construct ostensibly queer stories that focus then stood heterosexual Cismenschen, where Cis the opposite of Trans says.
Einar is because even an extremely passive figure. He seems to have no own needs, it will be offset by Gerda in pose, dressed her, dragged her to Paris. Eddie Redmaynes game is limited, dull howling and much trembling. Only when Lili really wakes, she ventures to formulate their wishes – the exhausted is to caress pretty clothes and look at many levels. Only when she wants to perform a second operation, she prevails against Gerda. But at this time it has long since ceased to paint, could hardly be more among men, she has lost her voice. Will we say this film, the only thing Trans people think is the shape of their genitals?
In contrast to the grandiose Amazon series Transparent a family man who outed themselves as transgender, spanning a dense network of relations, complications and injuries, play The Danish Girl in a vacuum, aseptic room. A very pretty room. The decor is modeled with great care Danish paintings around the First World War, beautifully staged, as if framed in a Danish provincial museum hang each setting. However, there are reasons why a visit to a Danish provincial museum not worth it. The wasteland may be pretty to look at, it still remains bleak.
Einar and Gerda hardly seem to have history, no family, few friends. Except for a few psychiatrists who serve more as comedic deposit, no one seems to have a problem with that Einar wants to live as a woman suddenly what rather surprised for the twenties. Where are the conflicts where remain the sweat, the blood? Why Gerda supported her husband unconditionally? The due love?
Accompanied by the overwhelming melodramatic soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat breathe the two were constantly in his ear, as in love, but sparks do not fly between these two. Paper thin, the characters whose emotions often tearful and presentable to break out of their pretty faces, but the most interesting thing about them remain their costumes. For hundreds of years, the game with gender and sexuality part of Western culture, a game full of winks and ambiguities and, yes, often with a dirty laugh. Gone. Beer Ernst and harmless the Genderfluidität to be. At the end it will probably just give it an Oscar. You find
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