And the Academy introduces you....THE DANISH GIRL

You can hide from others but we can't hide from ourselves. Eventually the truth of who we are and what we want to become will chase us and will be the key to reach happiness otherwise we are doomed to live in misery and a life full of secrets and lies and we might be able to lie to others and fool them but never to ourselves even if we start believing our own lies. Reality and curiosity will chase us like a curse and we'll feel trap between our mind and our feelings, and so we'll doom all our significant others and most important we won't get to know the person that we could become if we'd the courage to face all those thoughts and feeling and challenge ourselves to become who we really are or who we always wanted to be. "The Danish girl" (2015) brings those topics to the table making anyone wonder about their personal quest for happiness and the search of that real person we wanted to be regardless of all the expectations from others. We can choose what to wear, what to study, our profession, what food to eat, but there are some other things we can't choose, but sometime we are afraid of those preferences so we cover them with lies and a fake reality that will please others and in some terms will satisfy anyone to pursue their dreams but it won't be a full and honest way of themselves.

We can't choose how to love or why we like some activities or why we are scared of other, or why are we attracted to certain type of people and we feel totally off for others. There are some personal behaviors that we don't understand until we get deep into them and start some research or get around people that open our eyes about them but the first step will be always try to e as honest as possible to ourselves so we can achieve the idea of acceptance and love for them. The movie takes this risky path trying to explore all this subjects, feeling and decisions, based on a real case from the early 20's on Denmark where a couple of artist will face a new reality once one of them realizes and faces the truth about himself. Everything explotes once The famous illustrator and artist Greta Wegener asks her husband, the artist Einar Wegener to help her posing as a female model. This experience leads this man into a personal quest of mixed feeling and excitement that has been always there undercover by a character created and performed as society requirements. And everything happened as a game, when his sister in law named him Lilly as an unreal character or another person had taken over him, when both girls dressed him up for an event where his portraits as a female model became so popular.

Once he is performing this new persona, not only becomes a performance but a real tease of happiness and then won't be a turn back, only pushing him towards that new possibility of become and accept who he really is. Sadly the movie is so well done that that works against it. All the settings are perfectly done great performance, a direction that feel like watching a classic painting, a beautiful score and photography, everything feels so beautiful that we get to a point that we as an audience feel like watching a great painting at the museum trying to understand all the story behind it and relate to it in any possible way. All the sadness, the pain, suffering, exploring, even the nudes, and sexual awakening, are so well taken care of, that we are missing feeling shaken when get aware of what all this process meant for both of them. A man realizing that he is not a man anymore and he's been living in a body that doesn't belong to the soul and mind inside, the real challenge to fight to become what we really belong to and convince his wife and friends that he's not crazy nor ill but just different.

Craving for love and support from them to make it through all this, fighting to let go what he already has which is great and full of love but just doesn't feel right. And a woman facing the fact that her marriage and the person she loves is not real and is ending and transforming in something that will take her apart. Both journeys feel It's a relieve and scary at the same time that almost a century later things have changed for some and haven't still, like some countries where still people are discriminated for their sexual preferences and sexual identities.

Homosexuality has been more accepted now days with people realizing that individuals are still same person that they know just with a preference for their same sex so now the time has come to open our minds a bit more to accept and respect all those people who have been struggling with their sexual identity, realizing that being transgender will be a harder way to accept themselves as they live trapped in a body that doesn't belong to them and now at least they have hope but the way to go is hard and painful not just by morals but physical and emotional. At least good things come from all this intentions, like the danish girl, a quite mysterious woman flirting with guys while hiding the truth between her legs, it is educational and open minded for all the process we don't see happening behind their doors while they become into the butterfly they are meant to be.