Chapter 23
Gender Change/Orientation
This is a new genre. Quite a few examples have been produced in the last twenty years. I’m not talking about gay love stories where both parties are gay. Those are no different than all the other love stories in this book. Same rules. Same love. I’m talking about when a couple has been married for twenty-five years and Roy, tells his beloved wife and best friend that inside he is really a woman and he wants to become one outside as well. How does love survive a change that big? Is it possible?
Normal (2003, written and directed by Jane Anderson from her play) was one of the early examples of these films, made for HBO, starring Tom Wilkinson as Roy who becomes Ruth, and Jessica Lange as his wife, Irma. They ...
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