Titane

I loved it, it is intense, deep, and much more than meets the eye. The director presents us with a story of abandonment, grief and inability to relate to others, made up like a 'body horror' movie. And the way she represents it is great, here the characters are fragile, human, however the protagonist differs from the rest by her titanium plate on her head. The titanium serves as a visual reference to the coldness of the protagonist, how closed and hard she is before knowing her place in the world, which may be with an adoptive father, perhaps it is where her body is emancipated. As the film progresses, this character becomes more and more human, while carrying with her the secret of a metallic pregnancy, she manages to accept herself as a person in whom her identity has changed, but she feels really free and happy. A film that claims how fragile we are, how unpleasant, how disgusting and at the same time unique about the human anatomy. That emancipates differences, that does not glorify them, but reveals them to the world and shows us as we are, without the need for filters or social conceptions. This theme is represented by the pressure of the characters to generate changes in their body, the body is an envelope that ages, wrinkles and that exposes us physically to the rest. The protagonists have severe bodily disorders, either due to the attempt to hide a pregnancy in a male body after a gender and identity transition, or that of an aging man of fragile masculinity, who puts his body to the limit through injection of anabolics and exercise to shape his body. Beneath this layer of visual impact and impressive technical elements, there is a truly moving story.