everything's wrong but just
this is awesome, my heart pounds.

everything's wrong but just
this is awesome, my heart pounds.

Pretty bad and riddled with problems but so amazing to see an actual trans woman play a trans character!!

Pretty bad and riddled with problems but so amazing to see an actual trans woman play a trans character!!

The first half of the movie can be a little tone deaf with Francesca, the cis girl love interest. It’s nice to see a trans girl have a romance with a woman (albeit one who is engaged to a man), but the way her love interest traverses the topic of her gender isn’t great. “You’re so soft like a girl, but between your legs, you’re hard like a boy 🤭” yes, that exchange happens in this.

For 2014 I don’t expect much, so I can live with some of those faults. However, the second half of the movie focuses mostly on the fallout of the romance between the two women in a very upsetting way. There are death threats towards our protagonist, gay and trans slurs used, and the assumption that their romance would be doomed, so it might as well end before so much as a first date.

Then she ends up with her guy friend who says she’s not a real girl and she doesn’t count as a boy or a girl. He belittles her experience as if he, someone who fits into every privileged group, suffers equally to a transgender woman in the South. He’s forgiven for this, and they get together the same night he says those things. Everyone says she has great chemistry with this asshole over the course of the movie, but like… do they? I don’t see it. 

I don’t know. It’s kind of what you’d expect given the topic and time period. Wish it was better!

The first half of the movie can be a little tone deaf with Francesca, the cis girl love interest. It’s nice to see a trans girl have a romance with a woman (albeit one who is engaged to a man), but the way her love interest traverses the topic of her gender isn’t great. “You’re so soft like a girl, but between your legs, you’re hard like a boy 🤭” yes, that exchange happens in this.

For 2014 I don’t expect much, so I can live with some of those faults. However, the second half of the movie focuses mostly on the fallout of the romance between the two women in a very upsetting way. There are death threats towards our protagonist, gay and trans slurs used, and the assumption that their romance would be doomed, so it might as well end before so much as a first date.

Then she ends up with her guy friend who says she’s not a real girl and she doesn’t count as a boy or a girl. He belittles her experience as if he, someone who fits into every privileged group, suffers equally to a transgender woman in the South. He’s forgiven for this, and they get together the same night he says those things. Everyone says she has great chemistry with this asshole over the course of the movie, but like… do they? I don’t see it. 

I don’t know. It’s kind of what you’d expect given the topic and time period. Wish it was better!

i really do get why people like this one, it's sweet and it's not a story that gets told, so props to it, but tbh it's too conservative for me lmao

i really do get why people like this one, it's sweet and it's not a story that gets told, so props to it, but tbh it's too conservative for me lmao

They got a real trans girl to play a trans character! That's awesome! Also, I normally think like YouTuber cameos are kind of cheesy but it was nice seeing Grace; her appearance was believable if that makes sense. This movie had a good moral (I feel like I like a lot of moral-less movies so watching something with a message was nice.) and made me feel good in the end.
I felt a lot during this movie which was nice. A problem with a lot of movies I watched this month was me not feeling for the characters. You get to know enough about these characters to care about them. Also, so much is revealed about the characters as the film progresses it's hard not to stay surprised and focussed.
The background music in this film was very okay. It got distracting at points especially when Ricky ran away. I feel like the song choices could have been better.
Something I don't understand is why Ricky just left that video on her desktop? There was literally nothing else on her desktop besides that. That's no way to hide a secret.

They got a real trans girl to play a trans character! That's awesome! Also, I normally think like YouTuber cameos are kind of cheesy but it was nice seeing Grace; her appearance was believable if that makes sense. This movie had a good moral (I feel like I like a lot of moral-less movies so watching something with a message was nice.) and made me feel good in the end.
I felt a lot during this movie which was nice. A problem with a lot of movies I watched this month was me not feeling for the characters. You get to know enough about these characters to care about them. Also, so much is revealed about the characters as the film progresses it's hard not to stay surprised and focussed.
The background music in this film was very okay. It got distracting at points especially when Ricky ran away. I feel like the song choices could have been better.
Something I don't understand is why Ricky just left that video on her desktop? There was literally nothing else on her desktop besides that. That's no way to hide a secret.