This was a very fun movie to watch. It’s a French Belgium film, and it gives you a very different look and point of view of children, homosexuality and confused little boys. No one in the movie actually is gay, but the main character of the movie is struggling with his identity as a male, and he is only 7.
Ludovic is a young boy who can't wait to grow up to be a woman. When his family discovers the little girl blossoming in him they are forced to contend with their own discomfort and the lack of understanding from their new neighbors. Their anger and impatience cave and Ludovic is sent to see a psychiatrist in the hopes of fixing whatever is wrong with him. Then the town flips when Ludovic plays the part of snow white in the school play, and tries to get kissed by a boy at his school. The town drives out the family. A movie that addresses trans-gender and gender issues in general through the eyes of a child.
This is movie is very funny, and very sad at times too. But all in all, it’s a drama with humor through out it. What impressed me most about this film was the character development of the mother and the father. At the beginning, the father was raged at his little boy, and the mom tried to help understand what their son was going through. Towards the end, the roles switch, and the father accepts his son and loves him, and helps his wife to accept their son and love him too. It made me really happy to see the changes that they made, and the fact that they accepted their son for who he was, or wasn’t. It is very hard on parents to accept that their child could not be normal, and they fear for the child more than anything else.
The little boy who played Ludovic did an amazing job. He had long hair, and at times he did look like a girl. But I thought as a child actor, he did a phenomenal job. You could tell that this little boy really believed he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and you felt so bad for him for being so confused.
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