Let's be realistic.

Fantastic!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This movie was a very complicated movie. There are many emotions present throughout the whole movie. While watching, spectators are forced inside the very difficult life of Alex, and we all of the emotions of her life alongside her. The topic of hermaphrodism is very complicated, but this film does a great job of expressing the struggles of everyday life.Alex, the protagonist, is a teenage girl born as a hermaphrodite in Buenos Aires, but her father, Kraken, and mother, Suli, decided to move their family to the coast of Uruguay after much scrutiny and harassment because of Alex's condition. They hoped that by Alex living her life in more solitude, she would grow up and reach puberty and then be able to decide how she wanted to live the rest of her life. Alex's mother sought council for a respected surgeon, Ramiro, who brought his wife Erika and son Ámiro to live with her and her family. Ramiro is very interested in the possibility of performing surgery on Alex so that she can officially live her life as a woman. Through very complicated interactions with Álvaro and her friends and family, Alex ultimately decides to give up trying to become a woman. I believe that this film does a great job of focusing in on the hardships of life for someone like Alex, and uses a very dark and cold cinematography to really capture the feeling surrounding hermaphrodism.

I actually think this is one of the better inter-sex movies out there, even though I think it stalls somewhat on its own content. But what really irks me are reading reviews with verbiage like;patient, abnormality, defect, diagnoses and the like. This isn't about a 'medical disorder', but very possible another gender that defies traditional male/female definitions. Since there's always been sexual reassignment surgery with these people, many at birth, who's to say if left alone they wouldn't morph into happy, adjusted individuals that just form another non-traditional gender? I think if you watch this movie through non-traditional eyes, you will most likely get more from it. Alex makes the plea at one point;"Why do I have to be cut at all?" Yes indeed, why? Inter-sex people have been around since the beginning of the human race. The medical community traditionally has made these people lab rats, why don't we set them free?

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.

A very watchable story, for that it rates a high score. * The detail, first viewing it did not gel fully as the story is told, I needed to head towards symbolism in order to consider the story as fitting together well. I first heard of XXY genes in the mid 1960's. I used to read a weekly science magasine at our school library and there was a short piece about the gene being mostly liable to be found among the inmates of prisons. The IMDb Message Board for this feature considers that as a dated understanding, theory has moved on a lot since then. The MB also discusses why the title XXY is unlikely to refer to genes. I get the impression, the last decade or two, that the transgendered and intersex, maybe the gay world too, are under pressures to become criminalised. I liked how XXY feature can be an illustration of part of that. This is an teen intersex boy under pressure. Some do not consider that he should be a boy. Some consider that they have a right to walk over him. A formula for a teen to explode, but who will get the blame for that? So there is also the teen self identity problem. * Transamerica (2005), also extremely watchable, has the central character moving towards gender related surgery while still having closet type trans fears. As in XXY, this is someone who needs a healthy maturity, but the pressure is against that happening. This shows what I now understand to be a not unusual problem for trans to have to come to terms with, just one does not get a sympathetic view of the closet type fears. When the UK gender recognition bill was going though Westminster the trans discussion was very hidden, even in the trans world. The major trans influence on the bill was to allow secrecy, and that is there in the resultant law, but pushing for that appeared to make the law makers less sympathetic, the new law is much less inclusive than what I really need. I have not come across a worthwhile and sympathetic analysis of these fears sometimes still being prevalent in what would appear to be the more mature trans. From a trans point of view the fears can easily appear to be justified, we live in an area were accepted critical ways of society are typically destructive to us. The underclasses have a similar problem. Bad shall be stopped, bad shall be overcome, an imperative that has to be good so why do I consider that the underclasses and LGBT tend to be thrown into everlasting living hell because of that? Why do I consider that good is often a special form of bad.