the one where sharmin goes insane

The world is going insane. Seriously.
There is bird flu in Cairo. And the PNA is returning aid to the US. Tell me, who gives back $50 million to prove that they're serious? Hell, who asks for it back?

Pretties

I just watched Transamerica. It's a really nice movie... starring Felicity Hoffman, of Desperate Housewives fame, as a pre-operation transsexual who discovers she fathered a son. And as the supporting actor, we have Kevin Zegers playing her criminally pretty rent-boy of a son. Seriously. He is so. very. gorgeous.
The movie is suprisingly delicate and dignified, considering its mature and at rather times crude content- I think the quiet dignity comes from Felicity Hoffman, who is ridiculously convincing as Brie.There was the whole conflict of "when is she going to tell him," because you can't just go up to a person and say "Hi, I'm your father, but I'm a woman now." It was a strange movie, but the characters were completely convincing in their earnest and jaded and utterly flawed interactions. I was quite sad when I realised there were only ten minutes left to the movie because I was so interested and caught up in the jouney, I suppose.
It is adult- drugs, nudity, sexual abuse and various other shit- but it doesn't spare the viewer. At one point I questioned if Freud was so wrong, after all- but don't worry, everything in the movie makes so much sense you won't be able to imagine it any other way.
Now, for the screencaps, lol.
Spoilers cannot be avoided. But! I promise slash!


( Pretty Boys Make My Libido Happy )

( Plot-Like Things )

( FREUDIAN STUFFS )

( Slash )

Anyway, it's a good movie. You should watch it.
But you know, between Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Transamerica all being nominated for Oscars, it's quite trendy to be queer this year.