non-male

Peggie 2022-09-19 16:56:47

After watching "The Danish Girl", I became even more convinced that "the quest for one's own freedom" is so hard to achieve. Even if we live in an era where we are no longer tightly bound by a constitutional monarchy, even if the choice comes with a certain degree of autonomy, we do it under a kind of pressure from the beginning to the end of the choice, which comes from innate factors and social influences. A part of your image has been formed, and it has become a lifelong label, such as: Aina expects to be a woman, and he is real when he was born as a woman, and your gender is just a joke of God. But when society looks at your inherent label, it only thinks he is sick, ridiculous, and perverted. But in this gender, he was forced to choose to become a man, not one he could choose by himself.

Regarding Aina's final choice and his wife's support, I know that the process of finding an identity is the most difficult. Although it is simple in nature, it becomes unusual to wear the colored glasses of society. In Aina's decision to always dress as a woman and undergo gender change surgery, it's not hard to see that when we accept our true selves and find our own path, the real beginning begins. From Andrei Tarkovsky's words, I saw another heroine of "The Danish Girl", the selfless and great love of Aina's wife to her husband. "Today, we are all infected with a very high degree of egoism, which is not called freedom. The true meaning of freedom is to learn to ask only for yourself, not everything or others, and to learn how to give and sacrifice for great love." She It is a sacrifice for love, sacrificing all the needs and dependencies of a woman for marriage.

In fact, a few years ago in the Netherlands, the law has been humanized to the point that the gender on the ID card can be rewritten without gender reassignment surgery. This kind of law has helped many people make choices more easily.

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The Danish Girl quotes

  • [last lines]

    Gerda Wegener: [to Hans as her scarf is carried away on the wind] No, leave it. Let it fly.

  • Hans Axgil: [to Lili] I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.