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Near the college entrance examination season, I suddenly remembered that when I was in school, the English teacher talked about an interesting meme. In the British pronunciation, the word "Factory" is pronounced as "Fuck Tree", and someone naively wrote the latter on the listening test... The good memories made me deliberately find many British films with strong English tones, and the one that impressed me the most was this "Just Charlie".
Just Charlie
Just Charlie
Just Charlie is a drama film directed by Rebekah Fortune and starring Scott Williams, released on March 11, 2017. In the introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia, this is a same-sex film. If you watch this movie carefully, you will find that it has nothing to do with the same sex at all, but actually tells a story about family and children's growth.
The film tells a different story: boy Charlie was originally a rising star on the football field, and when he played, everything seemed to be under his control. There is currently a top club that is very keen to sign him. For him, the future seemed so bright, and success seemed to be in sight.
What is less known, however, is that Charlie has always felt that there is a girl living inside her. With the onset of adolescence, he seems increasingly unable to keep his secrets hidden. Charlie's decision may tear his family relationship apart, or it may drag his perfect world into doubt, prejudice and chaos...
Before his secret was discovered, Charlie sat up every day, secretly trying on skirts and stealing his sister's cosmetics. He played with his sister since he was a child, and when he grew up, he would become like a sister, but he did not want his soul to be trapped in a man's shell.
Charlie could have carefully hidden this secret until he was old, and he chose to be brave. I don't want to be what others think I should be, I just want to be myself.
"Not anybody, just Charlie."
LGBT is an acronym for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender. LGBT has now gained recognition and adoption by the majority of LGBT people and LGBT media in many English-speaking countries, and has become a very mainstream usage. Transgender people, among them, can be regarded as the most difficult one.
When Charlie confessed all this to the world, the reactions of different people can be described as exhausting the world. The father, who originally loved Charlie the most, when he knew that his son wanted to be a girl, first showed complete disbelief. He wondered if he was putting too much pressure on his son to choose a career in football, or if his school life wasn't as good as he wanted. He just couldn't accept that Charlie really wanted to be a girl, and there was no other reason outside, just because he was born like this.
The father began to evade Charlie in every way, refusing to share a room with him, or even recognizing him as his own son. Fortunately, Charlie's mother and sister behaved in the opposite way from their father. Charlie's mother was the first to accept that her son wanted to change sex, she found Charlie a women's soccer team to keep playing, she was the first person to call Charlie "she", she even threw her husband out of the house to protect Charlie.
And the sister also played a crucial role in this change. She would tear up and fight with others for Charlie, would buy Charlie a cute hairpin, and would carefully take care of Charlie's emotions. Although behind all this, the sister also has her own pain and entanglement, she will also cry in her mother's arms, and she will cry silently when she wakes up in the morning. But she still stood behind Charlie and supported him.
Therefore, the facts can only prove that women show more composure and calmness in the face of great changes than men, which is why nature chooses women to become the messengers of human inheritance. A woman's ability to withstand pain and stress has probably been profoundly written into our genes.
After all, Charlie was still a child, and when he decided that he wanted to face everything calmly, he actually only had a courage and less foresight. His sudden alienation hurt his black friend, who had been closest to him, causing him to speak ill of Charlie and hurt him as deeply as anyone else.
It should not be a coincidence that Charlie's good friend chose a black actor for this role. We all know the fact that blacks suffer the most racial discrimination in the world. The kind of transgender discrimination that Charlie experiences is actually very similar in nature to racial discrimination. Whether it is racial discrimination or transgenderism, it is the bullying of vulnerable groups by powerful groups joining forces.
The end of the movie can be described as both sadistic and heart-warming. Charlie, dressed in women's clothing, was almost insulted by a few little hooligans, and it was later discovered that he was actually a boy. A few people who were embarrassed and angry began to punch and kick Charlie, just as the world was malicious towards Charlie... At the same time, Charlie's father finally understood that "Charlie is just Charlie, regardless of his gender and choice", and he rushed to the injured Charlie and hugged him tightly.
Or prove the sentence: In this world, the one who loves you the most will always be your relatives.
Human society is a society of groups, and we always have to unite the majority of people and attack a small number of people to show our unity. It is human nature, and perhaps it can never be changed. But being different and different from ordinary people is not their fault. When you are a so-called normal person, please try to be more tolerant of other people. When you are a so-called different person, please be brave to face everything.
Because we have no other way but to be brave.