Two of the oscar-nominated films this year are feminine, one is "Carol", which I talked about yesterday, which tells the poignant love between two women, and the other is "Danish Girl", which tells the story of the world's first transgender person. The film received four nominations at the Oscars for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design. Judging from the nominated projects, you will guess that this movie is wonderful in both starring and beautiful scenery and costumes.
Based on the true story of the world's first transgender person, Danish Girl tells the story of a love affair that transcends gender and sexual orientation. In Copenhagen, Denmark in 1926, the painters Aina (played by Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander) were a legend in the art world. Because the model missed the appointment, Gerda persuaded her husband Aina to put on women's clothes to save the scene. But unexpectedly, this inadvertent cameo female awakened the female personality that had been hidden in Aina's heart for a long time. The man-dressed Lily also became the goddess of inspiration for his wife, making Gerda's paintings famous. As the female personality was awakened, Aina began to dislike her own body as a man. He gradually discovered that Lily was not only an artistic being, but also a true self. Gerda also did not expect that the game of improvisation would give his life a problem that could not be chosen. After painful consideration, Gerda finally decided to support Aina in performing the world's first sex reassignment surgery and transforming into a real woman, Lily. However, Lily died of complications from infection during her second surgery.
Although I have seen gay and men dressed as women before and have been mentally prepared for this, I am still very uncomfortable when I see the female costume of British actor Eddie Redmaine, who is called "Little Freckles" by fans. Although Eddie Redmeni, who won the best actor award at the last Academy Awards for playing Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything, performed very hard in the film, despite the film's music, costumes, and photography, and despite the beautiful fairytale castles and rural landscapes in Denmark, I could not get into the play and could not recognize the transgender efforts that went against nature (from a religious point of view, it was against God's will).
What really touched me was Aina's wife, Gerda. When Aina's paintings are praised at the exhibition at the beginning of the film, Gerda silently rejoices for her husband, thinking that one day she will paint so well. When the occasional game awakens her husband's feminine consciousness, she firmly supports him in finding his true self, even at the expense of losing her dear husband. In the end, when Aina becomes Lily and really wants to leave her to find her own life, Gerda is still on his side. Such a selfless woman is undoubtedly great. Her unwavering love for Aina is touching and admirable. Comparatively speaking, when I see the contrived smile and twisted look of Aina (Lily) played by Eddie Redmeni, I really feel that there is no beauty, only meanness and ugliness. I believe that the Oscar jury will not award him the best actor award.