My Life in Pink

Being a movie buff and a minor in media study production, i did make a lot of sense out of the movie. For this post I want to mainly talk about the movie. Firstly, the point which we didnt mostly discuss in the class was the part of the therapist. Though that character hardly had any role to play in the movie as an actor but the message which the director wanted us to get is really important to discuss here. The movie filmed in the 1997; we all agree that during that time gender and sex issues were not really talked about in open. similarly Ludovic's family and even the whole neighborhood did not want to talk about "bent" boys.

The family try for therapy because that was the only option they could think off. They could not handle the situation first hand as they had never heard of anything like that before, unlike the granny as she was practical and broad minded to the whole concept of sex change because of her friend's son. But I believe that the therapist did try to help the child, but she could not do more because of the fact that the child is just 7 yrs old and she expected the parents too support the child too which she didnt receive from either of them. We see in a scene that Ludo is inside with the therapist but the mom is out smoking a cigarette, this shows that at that point of time the parents had "lost hope" which should never be a case in a family.
The therapist does tell ludo something like, "there are things that should be kept inside till a certain age", which i believe ludo understood too, which is why he is ready to go back to live with his family and not with his granny.

In the end, when the mom realizes that its their son and should accept him as he is, is due to moment when she had climbed the billboard, because she saw that her own son wanted to run away with pam, and she saw that ludo was ready to leave his own family.

This movie did make me understand the issue of gender and sex in a total different way, as i totally agree as discussed in class that the gender is something that the child acquires, it is a process. But sex is something that is decided when one is born. acquired from birth. But i also believe that the way the child is brought up and what values his upbringing is in, affects it to a certain extent. So in conclusion i would say Ludo is neither gay, nor a transgender; he is still in the "process" to get to know his inner self.