The Danish Girl is a guide to the saved soul

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2015)

The Danish Girl is not just a simple story of a man who wants to be a woman. It is a shocking story.
It is not a pleasant movie in terms of making you laugh, but it can teach you a lot of lessons.
It is about people who don't know themselves and suddenly something happens in their life and they want to change forever.
That is what happened to Einar (Eddie Redmayne). In his case, a game led him to the most serious thing: to realize what his dream identity is.
It cannot be by luck that this man was an artist, a painter, inasmuch art is a method of self-searching in the soul and the mind. Einar hadn't acknowledged that he missed something and he found it through a joke.
Einar wants to be loved for Lilly, not Einar who just disguises in Lilly. The sadness of a person who seeks to find his own identity is extremely revealed in the movie.
He is trying to prove that he is not insane, just different from other people. He wants to be something else from what he was born and he has the right, but bullying towards him is inevitable.
The doctors all want to cure him, even lock him in a psychiatric hospital, but Einar knows he is not for that.
His girlfriend, Gerda, loves him and wants to help him, so she is to blame a lot for Einar's condition, as she kind of pushed him into that. She even used him to produce exceptional paintings, which showed his female part of him. Perhaps, that was her sin. Einar's wish to become a woman may even reveal a vacuum in their relationship. Maybe he is too identified with his girlfriend.
Most people will mock Einar for transforming into Lilly, but a lot of other people will be able to see beyond that: to see his soul and what his soul needs to be healed.
I don't think that Einar likes men and that is the reason he wants to be a woman. He wants to be a woman because he admires women regardless of his sexual orientation as of what kind of people he wants around him. Einar lets a woman be born in him and he battles through two different sexes. So, he is confused and doesn't know who of the two selves to keep. Apart from the war he has inside of him, he has the war of the other people who can't understand him and follow stereotypes. Even already having a woman's soul, Einar does want to become a woman in display in order people to know him as a woman.
It is strange that his girlfriend didn't leave him, but stayed with him and believed also that Einar is not a man but a woman. It is a sign of braveness, but also, through a different perspective, a false behaving towards a sick person.
Of course, what Einar passed through might be only an illusion, a transient mood. Sometimes, people believe some things and after a period of time not, so it is kind of strange that Einar took the decision quite early. He was confident too early. He might have better waited to see whether it was just a moment of madness. I didn't like the end. It was too sad. If Einar had escaped this momentum, maybe he wouldn't want to become a woman, but that we will never know it.
The film speaks about things that shock the community: people who want to change sex, people who want people of the same sex, love triangles.
But in life only matters what makes us happy, whatever it is and whatever the other people would say about that.
In this case, the coincidence is never a coincidence, as it helps you find what you want in life.
The movie reminds us how cruel it can be to "dare" to have a dream of being something so abnormal for the community.
The film also teaches us that the image can be a fallacy, so, the soul counts. When a man sees a woman becomes attracted to her. He doesn't know if she is really a woman or a man who just disguises into a woman.
The film keeps the interest even of the people who are not much interested in the story as a first read of the plot.
Its success lies upon that it presents everything in intense. The feelings of the two protagonists are very strong and this makes this movie very touching.
It is a journey to find who you really are and what you really want in life.