My Life in Pink (Ma Vie En Rose)- Review

From Beginning to End (A Summary):

Ma Vie En Rose, or My Life in Pink, is a Belgium-France film. It was filmed in Belgium, but the language spoken in the film is French. This film was released in 1997 and was directed by Alain Berliner. The film was nominated for Golden Globe Best Foreign Film.

My Life in Pink, is a film about a little boy name Ludovic. Ludovic personally feels and "knows" that he is in the wrong body, and accidentally was bore into a boys body. Ludovic dresses up as a girl, but his family and neighbors thinks that it is a joke.

Soon enough Ludovic falls in love with his dad's boss' son, Jerome, and told his mother that when he's a girl they'll get marry.

After the incident of being in the Boss' deceased daughter's room, Jerome and his parents looked at Ludovic differently.

Not only that, Ludovic's parents even took him to a psychiatrist to help "cure" him. But of course it had no effect.

Ludovic was treated badly from his parents, and so he forces himself to become a boy.

Jerome and Ludovic

But right before the school play, Ludovic saw his chance of being girl and getting Jerome to himself. He locked the girl, who was playing the main role with Jerome, in the bathroom and stole her outfit. Then on stage as Jerome was to suppose to kiss the girl, he found that it was Ludovic, and he backed away not knowing that he pulled the viel off of Ludovic's face. Thus everyone in the audience [all the parents] were in shocked and almost disgusted.

Every since that happened, the neighbors treated Ludovic and his family differently, as if something was really wrong.

Therefore in the end, the family moved out of the town to a different town. By then of course, Ludovic does his best to not be a girl. But at a neighbor's costume birthday party, Ludovic's outfit was switched by force, and without realizing what happened Ludovic's mother slapped him and threatening him.

In the end, Ludovic's family learns to accept the situation since he is a family member.

Transexual:

From this film, we can totally see that being gay, lesbian, or transexual, is what others do not want in their family. In the film, it is seen and considered as dishonoring the family, and a shameful thing.

The way that the parents of Ludovic reacted were in fact overboard. They were not willingly to accept the fact that Ludovic sees himself as a girl, therefore resulted in yelling, slapping, threatening, and being treated differently.  Even now within the whole wide world, that's how it still be, due to cultures and family name.

A good example of this happening in the world now is Bell Nuntrita, who is also a transexual. She appeared in Thailand Got Talent, for a competition and showed her skill in singing as a girl and guy. Nunita gave a little inside of her life where her father did not accept that she's a trans and beats her up. But she proved her dad wrong, by singing so beautifully appealing to the audience.

My Thought: 

I thought that this film was good and should be watched. It brings in a lot of what and how others maybe living their life as, being gay, lesbian or transexual.