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Glen or Glenda 1953
"Only the infinity of the depths of a man’s mind can really tell the story." Indeed.
For being 70+ years old this was a surprisingly sympathetic plea for acceptance of cross dressers (using the outdated term "transvetite") and some intersex people (using the outdated term "hermaphrodite"). There's some racist bits and some pretty head scratching sequences that were shoehorned in by the producer. Bela Lugosi's character is never explained and doesn't add anything although there's some sources that claim it was an influence on Eraserhead.
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The Skin I Live In 2011
So it turns out trans horror *does* exist, sort of. I certainly didn’t see it from that lens whenever pre-trans me saw this movie for the first time, years ago, which makes me think most cis people don’t see it that way either.
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No Smoking 2019
If you're a Hosono nerd you'll love this, but it will also leave you wanting for so much more. It does a good job telling the story from the start up through Hosono House. Then it zips through arguably one of Hosono's richest eras to get to YMO. Paraiso is mentioned briefly and then later Hosono talks about about assembling Sakamoto and Takahashi as if they hadn't been working together on various albums including Paraiso (which is credited to Hosono…
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