First, if you have any interest in seeing this movie, do not read anything about it, just go see it as soon as you possibly can.
mild spoilers
Holy cow, what an incredible movie. It felt like I was having a mirror held up to me showing my past self the entire time. I've never felt existential dread/despair that was so personal to me in a movie before. I was completely blown away by this movie and it has left me utterly shook.
explicit spoilers
The movie is like the IRL equivalent of taking a completely in denial trans egg and shaking them by the shoulders as hard as possible. When Maddie was talking about Owen's memories being jumbled up, that was literally me. The words 'there's still time' on the street raised my desperate hopes for Owen, but in the end that's all they were. It shows us all the hell of choosing to live in denial in perpetuity and how devastating that is. It's hard for me to convey how personal the experience of this movie is, but holy hell.
interpretation spoilers
I also wanted to ask how y'all interpreted a couple of points. First, the act of having to bury yourself to escape the midnight plane. My interpretation is that going through the ego death of finally acknowledging your true identity to yourself and shedding your false identity. The second is the mirror scene, which my interpretation is the small 'dipping of the toes' back into the memories of having explored gender identity in the past and taking comfort/energy from them. But I'd love to hear your interpretations on them.
What did y'all think of it? Any film recommendations in a similar vein?
It was good. I don't know how similar these are but have you seen Portrait of a Lady on Fire or Girlhood?