Trans Movie: WIll and Harper

Watched the movie, Will and Harper, on Netflix. I almost typed Netscape, that's how old I am.

This is a great show and a great treatment of trans issues - by which I mean, exposing trans reality and trans issues to the cis audience.

It is certainly a buddy movie and a road trip movie, in the vein of The Road to Morocco, but this went far beyond those tropes. And it's a movie, which is by definition an artificial story told with intent and agenda (a-gender?), but this was a pretty good one. It seemed balanced; it displayed the social ugliness they encountered in some spots, and on social media.

It rang true. It is a very feelings-oriented movie, but it manages to do that without feeling cloying.

We need a Bechdel Test for movies with trans characters. This one passes with honors; it has a trans woman, playing a trans woman, and the actor is playing themselves in a semi-documentary format. To sum it up, this movie hits much better than for instance Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, with a cis man playing the trans woman.

HIghly recommended. Four stars out of five.