Ma Vi En Reve
Shan’e Roundtree
November 14, 2011
MA VIE EN ROSE
The movie “Ma VIE EN ROSE” deals with an aspect of transgender through the eyes and family of a transgendered child by the name of Ludovic. To Ludovic, it's natural to want to be a girl. He looks up to the Barbie-like children's television character which is known as Pam. He dreams of one day being a princess just like her and marrying his best friend Jerome. ("We walk down the aisle, I look gorgeous...") He knows for sure one day he'll grow up to be a girl. Even when there is a lot of confrontational confusion and hostility between his parents in front of him and physical violence, he remains steadfast. She finally tries to explain whether Ludo is a boy or girl from what she learned in …show more content…
her biology class: girls have XX and boys have XY chromosomes. "But doesn't God decide?," Ludo asks. "Yes," his sister tells him. At last Ludovic happily has an explanation. He's a girlboy, a "scientific error". Someday he'll get his X back and be the girl he was meant to be.
To his father Pierre, his son's cross dressing is a joke to him at first when Ludovic appears at a party in his older sister's pink princess dress. The response that Pierre gave was a stereotypical father because behind closed door Pierre would warn Ludo not to let it happen again. He also got upset at his wife for not trying to change him. To his mother Hanna, at first look at it as a phase. "You're seven, too old to dress up like a girl", she comfortingly tells him. She's at first tolerant of Ludo’s behavior. But her patience soon wears thin when she starts to verbally abuse him.
Only his grandmother Elisabeth seems really be sympathetic. She gives the family great advice when she states "Don't overreact like those idiots....Girl or boy, above all, he's your child".
The rest of society is much less compassionate.
Schoolmates snicker "He plays with dollies", and in a locker room confrontation, beat him up. Sophie is another little girl who has a crush on Ludovic's friend Jerome. When Jerome spurns her advances, she spreads the word that he's "queer". Parents sign a petition to have Ludovic expelled from school. Neighbors give dirty, scornful looks when they pass by. As his world comes apart, Ludovic becomes self destructive. He walks out in front of a car, deliberately unseeing. He slams down a glass of wine, and later makes a tragi-comic suicide attempt.
Without wasting any time as soon on the movie as well as in my society, society spreads the transgender disgrace to the entire family. Through countless of people’s minds in society as a whole no one could say that a seven-year old child want or choose to be transgendered. Consequently, it has to be something that the parents aren’t doing right Religion plays a big part because it is to condemn those who aren’t the name that society places upon them.
I think just as well as “regular” children the people around whatsoever gender the child is plays an vital role in their years of finding who they are. Ludo’s peers did not understand her and weren’t given the ability to so they showed their way of not being able to understand by making it feel like it was his fault that he felt this
way.
At the end there signs of little hope for a peaceful future within Ludo and her family. Unfortunately the parents (who should have known better from the start) took a little bit of along time to figure out what was right. In other situations it would have been too late. They promised to love their child unconditionally, no matter what. I love this movie and I have recommended to two of my friends from the LGBT community and I can’t wait to hear their. Enjoyed watching the movie because it was filled with all types of emotions and wonder and I would watch it again without it being an assignment for class.
November 14, 2011
MA VIE EN ROSE
The movie “Ma VIE EN ROSE” deals with an aspect of transgender through the eyes and family of a transgendered child by the name of Ludovic. To Ludovic, it's natural to want to be a girl. He looks up to the Barbie-like children's television character which is known as Pam. He dreams of one day being a princess just like her and marrying his best friend Jerome. ("We walk down the aisle, I look gorgeous...") He knows for sure one day he'll grow up to be a girl. Even when there is a lot of confrontational confusion and hostility between his parents in front of him and physical violence, he remains steadfast. She finally tries to explain whether Ludo is a boy or girl from what she learned in …show more content…
her biology class: girls have XX and boys have XY chromosomes. "But doesn't God decide?," Ludo asks. "Yes," his sister tells him. At last Ludovic happily has an explanation. He's a girlboy, a "scientific error". Someday he'll get his X back and be the girl he was meant to be.
To his father Pierre, his son's cross dressing is a joke to him at first when Ludovic appears at a party in his older sister's pink princess dress. The response that Pierre gave was a stereotypical father because behind closed door Pierre would warn Ludo not to let it happen again. He also got upset at his wife for not trying to change him. To his mother Hanna, at first look at it as a phase. "You're seven, too old to dress up like a girl", she comfortingly tells him. She's at first tolerant of Ludo’s behavior. But her patience soon wears thin when she starts to verbally abuse him.
Only his grandmother Elisabeth seems really be sympathetic. She gives the family great advice when she states "Don't overreact like those idiots....Girl or boy, above all, he's your child".
The rest of society is much less compassionate.
Schoolmates snicker "He plays with dollies", and in a locker room confrontation, beat him up. Sophie is another little girl who has a crush on Ludovic's friend Jerome. When Jerome spurns her advances, she spreads the word that he's "queer". Parents sign a petition to have Ludovic expelled from school. Neighbors give dirty, scornful looks when they pass by. As his world comes apart, Ludovic becomes self destructive. He walks out in front of a car, deliberately unseeing. He slams down a glass of wine, and later makes a tragi-comic suicide attempt.
Without wasting any time as soon on the movie as well as in my society, society spreads the transgender disgrace to the entire family. Through countless of people’s minds in society as a whole no one could say that a seven-year old child want or choose to be transgendered. Consequently, it has to be something that the parents aren’t doing right Religion plays a big part because it is to condemn those who aren’t the name that society places upon them.
I think just as well as “regular” children the people around whatsoever gender the child is plays an vital role in their years of finding who they are. Ludo’s peers did not understand her and weren’t given the ability to so they showed their way of not being able to understand by making it feel like it was his fault that he felt this
way.
At the end there signs of little hope for a peaceful future within Ludo and her family. Unfortunately the parents (who should have known better from the start) took a little bit of along time to figure out what was right. In other situations it would have been too late. They promised to love their child unconditionally, no matter what. I love this movie and I have recommended to two of my friends from the LGBT community and I can’t wait to hear their. Enjoyed watching the movie because it was filled with all types of emotions and wonder and I would watch it again without it being an assignment for class.