The other day, Hollywood actor Alan Peggy became a news figure.
After declaring himself transgender, he also changed his name to Elliot Peggy.
For his decision, there is support and there is also some lack of understanding.
However, gender identity is, after all, a personal choice.
For the audience, whether he is Allen or Elliot, the work is the most important thing.
As an actor who has been debuting for many years, Eliot has starred in many well-known film and television works.
Hardcore Lolita in "Fruit Hard Candy", Precocious Girl in Juno, Female Dream builder in "Inception"...
In 2007, in the film "The Sin of the American Countryside", he starred as a tragic girl who was tortured to death.
The film is based on a true case that occurred in Indianapolis in 1965.
Sylvia, the young girl played by Elliot, originally had a happy family.
Her mom and dad are on touring carnival staff.
Because of their parents' work, they often move.
Sometimes, Sylvia and her sister Jenny are also fostered in relatives' homes.
And the sisters' nightmare began with a foster care.
In July 1965, on their way back from church, the sisters chatted with two little girls of similar age.
The two little girls warmly inviteD Sylvia and Jenny to play in their home.
The family was much more complicated than Sylvia's.
There are six children in the family, all raised by their mother, Mrs. Gertruderu (Catherine Keener), who earns money.
She has a boyfriend who is much younger than herself, but this man is only willing to spend money on his children.
Five of the six children were born to Mrs. Gertruderu and her ex-husband.
While the children mingled, Sylvia's father, Lester (Nick Cisse), came to the door.
After a few brief conversations with Mrs. Gertruderu, Lester decided to put his daughter in the family for $20 a week.
The family's eldest child, Paula (Ali Guelle), is 19 years old and has a boyfriend Bradley who works at a convenience store.
But Bradley was a husband, and Mrs. Gertruderu was very much opposed to her daughter being with him.
On this day, Paula returned home in a somewhat depressed mood.
She told Sylvia that she had gone to the hospital today and that she was pregnant on a test.
Paula asks Sylvia to keep it a secret.
Sylvia also reassured her that everything would be fine.
However, at a party, Paula and Bradley got into an argument.
Seeing Bradley treat Paula so harshly, Sylvia had to tell Paula's secret in order to protect her friends.
Unexpectedly, Paula not only did not appreciate it, but also remembered Sylvia's leaks.
She vented her anger on Sylvia and ran to her mother to complain, claiming that Sylvia had slandered her as a slut.
For Mrs. Getdrew, who has always had a bumpy road, the children are her treasures.
Hearing that Paula was being bullied like this, she was naturally angry.
Sylvia was asked to apologize to Paula in front of the whole family.
Although she was wronged, but under the fence, Sylvia had no choice but to bow her head and admit her mistake.
But Paula was reluctant to accept her apology, and the two fought.
However, it didn't end there.
On this day, her sister Jenny pulled out a letter from her parents with a check from the trash can.
In the letter, the parents offered to be able to speak to their two daughters.
Mrs. Gertruderu took the check and threw it in the trash.
Unfortunately, the sisters were seen by the children of Mrs. Gertrudru's family when they were on the phone.
The source of the telephone bill aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Gertruderu.
She insisted that Sylvia had stolen the family's money.
If you don't admit it, you're lying.
To punish Sylvia for stealing and lying, Mrs. Gertruderu burned her hand with a cigarette butt.
Sylvia's screams reached the ears of her neighbors.
But the neighbors chose to ignore it.
Obviously, they are no longer surprised by this.
Sylvia's next beating was because she went out for a ride with a boy she knew at the church.
Mrs. Gertruderu "slut-shaming" of Sylvia on the matter and ordered her to stuff a Coke bottle into her lower body.
The glassy bottle shattered to the ground.
Mrs. Gott droo also ordered the boys to push the scaly Sylvia into the basement.
In fact, Paula, who first filed the complaint, had already forgiven Sylvia.
But by now, it was beyond her control.
Sylvia in the basement seemed to be a plaything for everyone.
The children of the family, the children of the neighbors, all "come to her", and everyone can step on her.
Faced with such a situation, the intimidated sister Jenny could not do anything.
In fact, the children involved in Sylvia's abuse didn't know what she was doing wrong.
All they knew was "I heard she was bad", "Mrs. Gertrus said she was a slut"...
While the children punched and kicked Sylvia, Mrs. Groedt sat calmly and smoked.
Sylvia was a devout believer.
Now, she has not been to church for a long time, which arouses the suspicion of the priest.
However, whoever asked about Sylvia's whereabouts, Mrs. Getdrew's account was that the girl had misbehaved and was sent to a juvenile correctional institution.
The priest's visit not only did not help Sylvia, but it was counterproductive.
Previously, Mrs. Gertruderu had always thought that the rumored pregnancy of Paula was a rumor made by Sylvia.
But the priest told her that Paula had confessed to him that she was pregnant.
Mrs. Gertruderu gave birth to Paula at the same age as Sylvia.
She never wanted her daughter to follow in her footsteps.
Now, having learned the truth, Mrs. Gertruderu, who has lost her mind, chooses to vent her emotions on the innocent Sylvia.
She instructed the children to burn the needles red and then inscribed on Sylvia's abdomen "I am a prostitute and proud of it."
Finally, after so much humiliation, beating, and beating, Sylvia stopped breathing.
Seeing such a scene, the children finally realized the seriousness of the matter.
But Mrs. Getty Drew kept telling them that "she must be pretending" and "she's a liar."
In court, children confessed to what they had done.
Mrs. Gertrum, however, firmly denies her crime and attempts to throw the pot at the "mental condition" in the hope of exonerating her.
In the end, all those involved in the case were duly punished.
At the end of the film, Sylvia's soul returns to the carnival, sitting on her favorite carousel.
The carousel kept running, but it didn't know where to go.
Just like Sylvia didn't know what fate had arranged for her.