Wanted more out of this, especially in terms of foley (why were the punches and the baseball bat silent?), but its ensemble was great together.
Portrayals of the LGBTQIA+ experience will always do something for me. As someone who was 13 when he watched Die Beautiful on its opening day, and was quite frankly shocked by how defeatist it was looking back, watching this as a 22 year old in 2025 made me realize how we’ve come so far.
The ending is appropriate, and much of the lived experiences portrayed in this film still occur on a day to day basis.
It also feels heavy-handed at times, but I maintain that being heavy-handed for certain matters is the best way to go. For this film, it was appropriate, as transgender individuals still tend to be demonized, ridiculed, or mocked.
If being heavy-handed is the way to change perceptions of transgender individuals, then I am all for it. This film can be aptly described as “malayo na, but malayo pa.”
Transgender representation has come a long way since 2016, the year Die Beautiful came out, but this film proves we still have a long way to go.
Wanted more out of this, especially in terms of foley (why were the punches and the baseball bat silent?), but its ensemble was great together.
Portrayals of the LGBTQIA+ experience will always do something for me. As someone who was 13 when he watched Die Beautiful on its opening day, and was quite frankly shocked by how defeatist it was looking back, watching this as a 22 year old in 2025 made me realize how we’ve come so far.
The ending is appropriate, and much of the lived experiences portrayed in this film still occur on a day to day basis.
It also feels heavy-handed at times, but I maintain that being heavy-handed for certain matters is the best way to go. For this film, it was appropriate, as transgender individuals still tend to be demonized, ridiculed, or mocked.
If being heavy-handed is the way to change perceptions of transgender individuals, then I am all for it. This film can be aptly described as “malayo na, but malayo pa.”
Transgender representation has come a long way since 2016, the year Die Beautiful came out, but this film proves we still have a long way to go.
