Okay, I figure I just as well start this now, because tonight after I get back from class I'm going to a free screening of "The Fountain" (you know the creepy looking new movie with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz) and will probably contribute my thoughts on those as well, so I need to empty my head on some of the films I saw earlier this weekend.

First up, TransAmerica.

Audience Impression: I thought it was funny though taking note of the group of people that showed up. All the couples were almost totally all gay men and their girlfriend, or girl alone, or a group of two girls together.

The movie was so good. I absolutley love Felicity Huffman, and to see how diverse she is as an actress from when I used to watch her on Sports Night on ABC (I'm still sad they cancelled that when they did) to Desperate Housewives, and then this film is so impressive I can't even tell you. Speaking of desperate housewives before I went I had just watched the episode with the shooting in the market, and how amazingly she's able to capture the emotions of a woman and mother in that position and then see her in such a different yet similar emotional state as a man who finds his new role as a 'mother'...its insane. I thought she did a great job of being masculine enough to try and hide her masculinity in the akward transition. There was only one moment in the film, where I was taken out of it breifly, and remember that this was a female playing this role, and that was during one of the character's breakdowns, where she begins crying. She done good with the voice the whole time, but I can't fault her for crying in a higher pitch, because, well, she is a woman.



No matter what the viewer's personal feelings are about transgendered people, this amazing movie will make you fall in love with the characters as human beings. Through the film you watch "Bree" grow not only as a person or a transexual, finding her footing, as well as gaining acceptance for who she is, but you begin to see her as a women. Not as a man who is going throught the process of taking hormones, and getting a sex change.

I thought the dynamic of having this transgendered individual have to come to terms of having a son, and finding out he's a "father" after having tried to abondon that person, and then try to build a relationship as a parent with this kid was extremely interesting. It boggles even your mind just watching it, wondering what in the heck must be going through this persons head, and the confusion and frustration they must be feeling. But in the end, TransAmerica isn't an "issue" based movie, about transexuals and the difficulty they go through but more a story about relationships, and especially parenthood (also taking note of the parent-relationship of "Bree" and her folks), which is an old-fashioned timeless story that everyone can identify with in some way. Tres Bien!

crap...I'm running out of time already, just cause I'm trying to sit here and formulate my thoughts. Okay, so I'll only do the first two today.

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