The Danish Girl

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

I went to see The Danish Girl Wednesday evening. It is a beautiful love story between Gerda Wegener and her husband Einar, who became Lili Elbe. Lili was one of the first people to undergo what passed for SRS in 1930. I admit I saw so much of myself in Lili that I cried through a lot of the movie. I'm even leaking a few tears 24 hours later writing about it. Eddie Redmayne was fabulous as Einar/Lili. Alicia Vikander is great as Gerda.

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[tugon (imported)]

I went to see The Danish Girl Wednesday evening. It is a beautiful love story between Gerda Wegener and her husband Einar, who became Lili Elbe. Lili was one of the first people to undergo what passed for SRS in 1930. I admit I saw so much of myself in Lili that I cried through a lot of the movie. I'm even leaking a few tears 24 hours later writing about it. Eddie Redmayne was fabulous as Einar/Lili. Alicia Vikander is great as Gerda.

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Thanks for the review and I am interested in seeing the film. I first learned of Eddie Redmayne in "Les Miserable" oh what a talent. I hope the movie comes to my town.

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

It should open nationwide today.

[GenChick (imported)]

I was intrigued and just watched the trailer. Emotions overfilling me in anticipation of story development.

Thanks for sharing!

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

I was intrigued and just watched the trailer. Emotions overfilling me in anticipation of story development.

Thanks for sharing!

Take tissues! Believe me take tissues!

[StrangeSunshine (imported)]

I saw the trailer today. It was released in theaters on Friday, December 25, 2015. I've never heard of it before. I did buy a 2015 science-fiction film from Walmart called Ex Machina. I also bought a 2008 science-fiction film called The Day the Earth Stood Still the same day from the same place. I watched at Ex Machina at a Christian college I call Twenty-Eight. I loved Ex Machina. The actress that plays a seductive cyborg named Ava in Ex Machina is in The Danish Girl. I could go to AMC Veterans 24 in Tampa, Florida, and watch The Danish Girl. It's a 21-minute drive from my parents' place. Alicia Vikander is in The Danish Girl, but nothing else in that film really interests me. Eddie Redmayne is Einar Wegener in the 2015 pseudo-biographical film The Danish Girl. Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything. Now, that is a movie I would love to watch and over and again! A science-fiction film or a cool movie that involves science, those are the types of films that I love.

[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

Eddie Redmayne does do a wonderful job in the lead. The subject matter was handled nicely I would have to say. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to see a real story about a trangendered person played out on screen.

I found myself blown away by the actress who plays the wife, Alicia Vikander. She sucked me into the story and I felt more for her character losing her husband while discovering Lili. As mentioned above, Alicia played the Android role in Ex Machina earlier this year. The roles are so diametrically apart in terms of what is asked of her. In Ex Machina she played a good machine. In Danish Girl her character was SO alive, I went back to watch Ex Machina again, having seen it over the summer.

I may be biased in how I viewed her in this film, but I was far more interested in her than in Lili. She really blew me away.

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

I may be biased in how I viewed her in this film, but I was far more interested in her than in Lili. She really blew me away.

That's not bias, that's just the different way we view the same film and our life experience. You've seen Alicia Vikander in roles before and you liked her. So as a (I assume) cisgender person you were more interested in her as Gerda. Other people have said the same thing; she's fabulous as Gerda and she is. On the other hand, I had never seen her in anything before. But no matter how fantastic she is as Gerda, since I will be starting medical transition in a couple of months and hopefully social transition by the end of summer, I was far more interested in Redmayne as Lili. As I said, it's just life experience. It's funny though, of the three of us who went to see the movie, the least emotional person was my wife who is in basically the same position as Gerda. I was by far the most emotional. But during the movie, our normally stoic lesbian feminist friend who went with us stuck her hand out to me and asked, "Got any tissues left?"

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[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

You may be right. I'm 51 and had worked out any gender issues or suspected ones back in my late teens. However I have maintained interest in the TG subject and by extension castration which is how I arrived here.

The thing I took away from the film, was that true love with a woman for me would supersede any gender issue....whereas for others like yourself correcting the gender is worth more than life itself.

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

I'm lucky with that love from a woman since my wife is staying with me no matter what. In fact, she told me she feels guilty because she thinks she's held me back from transitioning for years.