Transamerica

This was strangely challenging.

On a basic level, I find it hard to imagine someone being so unhappy with their sex that they go to such extreme lengths to change it.

How much of transgendering is just an act, or rather a different act? The majority of female behaviour is socially conditioned anyway, and not sex-based at all. Bree wears dresses, has long hair and paints her fingernails. She dislikes camping and is scared of snakes. She is in some ways a parody of women, an exaggerated version of femininity. But I can't work out from the film how much of this is already part of Stanley's personality, and how much is a very brittle and desperate pretence in order to 'fool' society.

I found Bree more 'convincing' as Bree at the start of the film, before we got to know her as having once been Stanley, but I liked her more at the end, because I knew she had once been Stanley.

But there was no happy ending, which is good! In fact, there wasn't really an ending at all. Which is at least realistic.