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Trans in Trumpland (2021)
Powerful example of Trans Joy
The series goes a long way to explain why a trans person would choose to live in a Red state. Each subject has found community in a place where laws can often make life dangerous for them. Trans people who live in red states are often oppressed by their local government, but their very existence in these places are helping to change the demographic of red states. The act of existing is activism and that's a beautiful thing.
Paraiso Travel (2008)
Spoiler alert: Terrible message terrible movie
OK, I saw this movie at the tribeca film festival and came face to face with the director as I tried to get the hell out of there. I wish I could have said this to him now.
the guy must have a vendetta against the female race or something because the young (18 years old!!!) female lead Reina seems to be everything he wants you to hate about women. She is a cock tease, she uses her sexuality to get men to do things for her (quel horreur!), she cares about only one thing, coming to America to find her drug addicted mess of a mother and have a better life. Throughout the movies, she is robbed, raped, crosses the rio grande, is stuffed in a hollowed out tree stump and abandoned by her boyfriend in a skanky hostel in brooklyn. She is such a pathetic figure in the end of the movie, how could anyone possibly look this young messed up mother of an infant, prostitute and caretaker of a indigent mother in the eye and tell her to kill herself? well, thats what the director/writer and lead character does. what a mensch.
which leads me to the male "hero". although attractive in the face, he has the personality of Nomie Malone from Showgirls, and I have trouble believing all women fall for his charms. He continually gets himself lost by running around like a person who's never lived in a big city, I have a hard time swallowing that a colombian from medellin is that ignorant of neighborhoods and how to retrace their steps, that city has 3 million people in it. I've met colombians, they seem to do just fine with streets and landmarks, they even know how to drive!!!! They are a sophisticated and street savvy people. Even worse, he often stumbles into NYC landscapes that are right out of 80s movies clichés (trash can fire bums, squatters, s&m, payphones - your movie needs to be updated when it looks like a scene from bonfire of the vanities) This is not NYC, this is NYC circa 1988,
there's so much "ick" factor in this movie, there's even a sex scene with a sleeping grandma in the room. A SLEEPING GRANDMA PEOPLE!! Thats farrelly brothers gross, and not in a good way.
With a plot so similar to Showgirls its spooky, this movie is simply really really really bad.
Baghead (2008)
Spoiler alert: this movies is just meh
I appreciate the funny moments of this movies, but I thought they tied it up an a very unrealistic manner, which really clashes with the nice character studies they built up throughout the film. I don't believe that any unattractive "brother like" friend would suddenly become a possible love interest to a "party girl" because he was injured and further rendered pathetic. I don't believe any footage they shot was so awesome as to be "film festival worthy", unless the whole cabin was rigged with cameras, you're talking about 5 minutes of POV footage of people screaming and running. That would be a small clip from the blair witch project, a movie that came out a decade ago. These actors may be dumb, but are they really that dumb to think they struck art-house gold on that? If so Im glad I don't live in LA. And I don't know why baghead appeared twice before the actor made the call to the movie maker, and yet the question is never raised, who was the original baghead? The movie is a bit sloppy on plot points.