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Transamerica

Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan

It is curious to note that once again the film, as in other areas, specifically social and political, are pointing to the trolley in thematic waves are making now and then fall to the pit of oblivion or collective - to the
media-saturated (remember: drugs, prostitution, violence against women, terrorism, etc). Transamerica comes with the turn of sexual identity.
Felicity Huffman plays Bree, a transsexual waiting for a sex change operation to become final in the genre that truly belongs. Bree's life changes when you discover that you have a teenage son, the fruit of a heterosexual relationship, which seeks a dad to ask for help to get out of jail.
Transamerica narrates through the formula of the Road Movie encounter between a mother and father and son through a journey that takes you from New York to Los Angeles, using all the clichés of this genre: humorous tone with a background of dramatic , Characters that are known along a succession of experiences, family mess, emotional growth of the protagonists and predictable end. This arrangement makes the advance of history will be made increasingly unstable and begins to waver. In addition, there are credible arguments as little as a teenager who has lived in environments of prostitution and drug proved so naive as to not realize who your real father to situations so obvious that not even require the use of a complex deductive reasoning.
Definitely the story is saved thanks to the performance of Felicity Huffman developing very carefully its role and truly makes us believe that this is a transsexual, with many nuances of the character you care with extreme neatness (the tone, the use of language, gestures, movements to
walking, etc.). Part of the merit of interpreting Huffman is in its ability to carry out this dual transformation from woman to man and from man turned back into women.
Although the original film may seem initially to enter morally contentious issues for some sectors of society, the central axis is not transsexuality and barely show a flat brush strokes of those who believe that it is a mental illness (dysphoria sexual), those who think it is a perversion or those who live as a gender identity.
The choice of the life of a transsexual is what arouses the interest and ensures the success, if Transamerica had told a story of reunion between a father with his son would have passed completely unnoticed, and surely if he had fully addressed the issue of gender identity would have uncovered a Pandora's box. But I think this is not what it was intended (a shame to lose an opportunity like that) because its function is not going beyond the entertaining and not give much to think about.

Enlightened By Fire

Director: Tristan Bauer
Interpreters: Gaston Pauls, Edgardo Esteban, Gustavo Romero Borri

Clearly the justification for starting a war is almost always stupid, and we will concentrate on the war between Argentina and Britain for the Falkland Islands, the degree of stupidity reaches a maximum power. And justify this in the greater respect it deserves the Argentine people, people who fought in that war and with the knowledge that the conflict with England for the Falklands is one of the many absurd things that touched him to inherit the Argentina of Spanish colonialism.
The courageous decision of Tristan Bauer to lead the Enlightened by Fire, a film on this theme.
The film tells the story from the eyes of Stephen, who relive the horrors of war following the suicide of one of his former colleagues. The character who plays Gaston Pauls decided to return to Falklands 20 years later, as a way to close the cycle of a constantly open wound, slipping in this way with heavy emotional situations lived there with his companions.
Enlightened by the Fire is of those films that leaves you no end to the indifference, but also greatly influences the taste for the film viewer's expectations when it comes to the room.
For those who go to see her waiting to know what happened in the Malvinas, how the conflict arose, how it was developed, and the consequences that led to Argentina, it is better to stay at home reading a history book because Enlightened by the Fire contextualization the war and what it meant for the country only if it is perceived.
But if the expectations are different, can we meet before a good movie with many nuances to consider. Looking beyond the historical events, it could be assumed that the horror of any war to the lives and who participates from within. The film within at between scenes of war that are intermingled with scenes of this, some of which could have been omitted because they reveal very little, but without being too demanding, not to bother coming. The stakes are high with the emotions of the characters (though not always that excitement reaches the viewer) and it is good to note the role that develops Gaston Pauls and the interpretation of Virginia Innocenti in limited scenes, especially that develops in the department of suicide reflects how and where the effects of war not only had implications for those who participated in it, but people who fought alongside the soldiers to release its aftermath.
A highlight good choice for the soundtrack of the theme "For Life" by Leon Gieco, one of the most versatile musicians and significant protest song of Argentina.
I think Enlightened by the Fire of these films is that apparently do not contribute much to the viewer at the time that you're watching, but later, when the days pass and you realize you are still recalling scenes and discovering new details, not so much the film itself, as the horror that marked Malvinas there for people who fought for those who gave their lives for a homeland of corrupt leaders, for the people who supported them and that after the defeat is not always recognized them as heroes. That's when the movie fulfills that goal of awakening the motivation to discover for ourselves what really happened in the Falklands and the open wound that even today, more than 20 years later, continues to pose for Argentina.