Another Purple Vintage Space Princess movie review… and then some! TRANSAMERICA

December 19, 2008 at 5:54 pm Leave a comment

Another Purple Vintage Space Princess movie review… and then some! TRANSAMERICA

Happy Holiday’s ya’ll!

There are six days till Christmas… for those of you who celebrate or recognize it. I have totally slacked on my Funky Christmas Countdown. I don’t even have a good excuse, for example:

1. My Macbook died (SUCH A FARCE, I JUST GOT A NEW ONE LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AGO)!
2. I’ve been heavily travelling (Mmmm… not so much, although my trip to Tennessee is getting closer).
3. I had to tend to my sick dog (The sick dog that I don’t have, yet that I want…. minus the sick part).

Okay, thats enough of that nonsense. You get the point! One activity I have kept up is my movie viewing.
This purple princess never misses a chance to see a good flick. Has anyone ever seen Transamerica ? I had been wanting to see this film for the past year or so and finally did last night. Firstly, I must say, “WOW”!

Felicity Huffman’s performance was phenomenal! For those of you that don’t know about this film Huffman plays Bree, a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual, holds down two jobs and saves every penny so that she can pay for one last operation that will make her a woman at last. One day, she receives a phone call from a young man named Toby who called her from a juvenile lock up.

He turns out to be her son as he was a result of a sexual encounter years ago when she was a man. Bree flies from L.A to New York to bail Toby out. She wasn’t thrilled to do it, but her therapist convinces her to face up to her past in order to proceed with her future and complete the last step of her surgery. They start their journey to L.A together as Toby believes Bree to be some Christian missionary . Bree sees no reason to clear up the misunderstanding until some events unfold later in the film. Some serious events happen throughout the film. It’s a must see drama. Tears might flow and most importantly its a film that makes you think about how other people live their lives and how they are treated in the world.

It was very moving. Also, who ever did the casting for this film is a genius. Huffman truly was believable as a “man to woman”.
This world would be a much happier and gentler place if everyone could just accept people as they are. Who are others to judge? Unless you have walked in someone’s life path (which is impossible… you may have similarities with someone else’s life but we all have our OWN INDIVIDUAL journey…) you don’t truly know what they are going through or dealing with.