Year: 2003
Duration: 01:51:03
Directed by: Bertrand Bonello
Actors: Laurent Lucas, Clara Choveaux, Thiago Teles
Language: French | Portuguese (English subs embedded)
Country: France | Canada
Also known as: Tiresias
Description: Transsexual Tiresia, illegal Brazilian immigrant who lives with his brother in a Paris suburb . Poet and esthete Terranova meets her in the woods, where she is engaged in prostitution. Struck by her beauty, he kidnaps her . But , lacking hormones , Tiresia became a man.
Terranova pokes out her eyes and left on the roadside . She picks up a strange teenage girl Anna and her treats . When ready , Tiresia understands that can predict the future. People go to the oracle of the crowds at that very church looks askance . A modern interpretation of Bertrand Bonello ancient myth of Tiresias , who was then a man, then a woman , and , blinded by one of the goddesses got from other Gods gift of clairvoyance.
Review: It is very difficult to write a review for this movie.
On the one hand – this is Art House , which in itself implies a real variability of interpretations video. On the other – the theme of transsexuality and all its negative flair . And yet , I want to write about this movie , because for me he made a very strong impression.
The film is claimed ancient myth of Tiresia – the shepherd of Thebes, which seven to nine years of his life as a woman , which turned into a killing a snake or by the will of the gods (there are alternatives) , as well as the cause of his blindness sounds like a congenital or as a punishment gods from whom the same was given the gift of divination and clairvoyance , as well as in several times extended life … Here in this article , and written about the contemporary scenario blinded transsexual from Brazil, in prostitution . In short, the ” twisted ” is initially hard …
Here are just out of this in the film saw no issues of sexual identity, and the attitude to love in today’s society in general . Can I steal the love? Or make love ? Actually like to buy … But the hero – heroine is kidnapped just because for the sake of love, and for its lack of blinding . In general, the attitude – it like a spoiled child for longer liked the toy. And then , with some inner dignity and strength hero – heroine goes through adversity precipitated initially causes confusion and internal protest , which then become the hope of understanding and feeling deeper than respect . And it may therefore suffer more follow the development of the tragedy, where is the worst of any final will be no worse than the reality , but rather deliverance.
And the other aspect of the film , it is a constant clash of human motives and actions with the actions and motives dictated by the psychology of consumption, the fact that modern society has become everyday norm. This encounter shows how far from the first and second on the person at all, that blindness is against this background is much less flawed than this perverse mentality involved in carousel consumption and maintenance.
If you are not my love for the art-house genre , this film would probably look advised , although it should be set up to view a heavy and complex film. In other matters , in the comedy vein, such questions can not be disputed .
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