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Shock Value?

posted 9 years ago by KikiFlorida
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Other than for shock value, what was the point of making Dil transgender? It wasn't a movie about transgender people or even about Dil's life. So wouldn't it have basically been the same movie, minus the shock value, if Dil had been a biological female? I don't have a problem with Dil being transgender, I just couldn't figure out the point of it in this movie. Any thoughts?

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

None that I can figure out. I guess the director just wanted to wanted to make a tranny movie. It made me kind of sick.

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[–] Mustang (5418) 3 years ago

The only reason I could think of is it’s a kind of dull film so they probably figured they needed the controversial (for the time) twist.