"Am I a girl?" "It's just words, isn't it?" -No right to get me so emotional as it did. I've never seen a film where the protag is speaking to an older self and being so cynical and pessimistic about themselves, downright ridiculing their future counterpart. It makes sense. Theres an inherent frustration being a trans person and thinking about the future. Who will we be? Who will we end up as? Who will we love? So it's easy to just look through a hate filled scope and deny anything will be ever good. Then theres also the reassurance of figuring things out as we get older. Im a different person than i was at 13 years old and still a girl. I could go back in time and talk to myself then, to let them know that things will change. I wonder what me at 40 would look like and if i will be as optimistic as the man here about myself. Or if that older man will be just as pessimistic as I am today. I connected so personally to this its not funny
"Am I a girl?" "It's just words, isn't it?" -No right to get me so emotional as it did. I've never seen a film where the protag is speaking to an older self and being so cynical and pessimistic about themselves, downright ridiculing their future counterpart. It makes sense. Theres an inherent frustration being a trans person and thinking about the future. Who will we be? Who will we end up as? Who will we love? So it's easy to just look through a hate filled scope and deny anything will be ever good. Then theres also the reassurance of figuring things out as we get older. Im a different person than i was at 13 years old and still a girl. I could go back in time and talk to myself then, to let them know that things will change. I wonder what me at 40 would look like and if i will be as optimistic as the man here about myself. Or if that older man will be just as pessimistic as I am today. I connected so personally to this its not funny
