Fresh and Exciting

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There is always one question that comes to our mind when we see a pregnant woman, is it a girl or a boy? It seems like we don't have any other options to be. Because of the heteronomy, we are defined to be only a male or a female depending to our gender identities and our gender roles. Gender role is specified within the society by dressing style, parlance and behaviors. However, gender identity is formed with the help of inheritance and external factors. In instance, how you feel about yourself and your instincts show your gender identity, while your dresses represent your gender role within the society which you live in. According to the gender roles which society give us, we are expected to act normal related to our gender identity. At this point, a question arises: "what is normal?". When we view from heteronomic perspective, there are two norms for the individuals. Either you should be a male and have behaviors for men or you should be a female and act like women. Hence, there are black and white without any different color. Everything in this world is formed to fit in this manner. Despite the fact that we have seen different and unusual occurrences like in the movie. The reason of calling them different and unusual is very obvious after we encounter with heteronomy. Because of the society, we internalize the normality of genders as we born.The idea of having two sexes is very complicated and nonsensical for the today's world and its gender roles. A little while ago, homosexuality were seen as a disorder and doctors were trying to cure that. In other words, they were searching for a way to normalize the person who were homosexual. By the way, we still have societies who believe and agree on that. I observe the same attitude for the people who have both sexes. It appears that we have become more develop some way or another, in this movie, Alex who is hermaphrodite, refuses to be operated to deform herself either a man or a woman. She is a naturally born individual with both genders. Understanding herself and deciding what she wants are vital and it should be only her concern. Her parents want Alex to be a girl, however first she starts to discover herself and her preferences. Although all reactions and attitude from her community, she decides to remain what she is. We should ask ourselves if we have right to choose both. We are stucked in the boundaries between the accepted definitions of male and female that demonstrates homophobia inherent in forcing the "unusual" to be "normal." It's more of an inborn perception that anatomical sex which is defined systemically base sociological gender norms and gender identities, is entirely reversed that a biological difference produces social consequences at our security in the human identity. This unsettling and distressful occurrence has a power to overthrow our presumptions about sex and gender identity. Not only our presumptions, also our beliefs are challenged in such a way. By this opinion, we should critique about our social indoctrinations and associations between external rules and gender.

This is truly one of the most touching films I have ever watched because of the issues being dealt with. The emotional struggle really makes you enjoy the movie, due to the fact that it connects you. In today's society we often conform to the 'norm' and this film challenges that in a way that is not too biased toward either gender; which means people like Alex in this film are looked at differently, which is one of the flaws of society. However in the film, Alvaro tries to overcome this problem and he consistently shows that he loves Alex; however not in the way Alex would've liked. Personally, this film is great and I really did feel that this film is a great way to show how society is flawed; also the fact that I fell in love with the character Alex suggests that there are people out there who are less 'focused' on the traditional. The only criticism is that the that the story is a little hard to gasp at first, but this is excusable given that I speak English and how softly the audio (speaking) was.

Complexity and Its BirthLife on Earth began in the ocean. In the depths of this primordial soup where nature conceived of the first and the subsequent, the natural was born. Eventually, man and woman was born. XY and XX was born. Man and woman was natural. But does natural also mean normal? If natural creation is the source of everything that is a creature, does it follow that every natural creature is normal? Thus, the complex was also born.It is fitting that in the chronicle of Alex's life, the diegetic beginning of the film begins with the beginning of everything, the ocean. The opening credits are shown within the confines of the lulling blue mother of all that is all. The movie will show again and again these motifs, saluting the ultimate life giver.A Complex Life/Love/Human StoryIt is quite obvious that intersexuality presents a host of dizzying conundrums about biology and society. The movie fulfills this preliminary requirement. Brilliantly, the film goes beyond. The beauty of XXY is that it carries its complexity from chronicling the development of Alex's biological life to chronicling the biology of Alex's love life. Complexity runs through the movie like complexity runs through the fractals of nature. When you think you know what's going to happen, an even more delicate and captivating development happens that provides you with more insights and more questions about the characters. One is rarely black or white, bad or good, ugly or beautiful, XY or XX.Complexity: What to Make of It?Life is complex. The filmmakers have enough fortitude to present to us that both blessings and curses are bestowed. Joy to those who are fortunate; woe to those who are unlucky. What will happen to those who are accepted? Those who are loved? Those who are rejected? Those who are despised?

Images, confusion, identity search, fear and seeds of different kind of love. A hermaphrodite and her family. And the others. A doctor and his family. Few days together.Conversation and shadows. And evening of words. A teenager, a girl and the people. Escapes as spider web and the travel to "normality". A poem. About a minority, essence of small lives, parents and children. Few slices about differences as roots of everything. Ines Efron as a strange Alex for who the life is field of obscure country. A question mark. A storm in temple. It is more than a film. It is analysis of desire of happiness. In basic , harsh words. A drama and rolls of silence. Behind definitions.