You won't be disappointed.

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2020)

I really liked this movie. I thought it was so beautiful and such an important story to tell.
The realistic balance between both Gerda's support for Lile but also her confusion at first: this was a very taboo topic and barely even spoked about. You could feel Gerda's pain that she wanted to understand and to help but sometimes she just didn't understand or know how to. You can also throughout the movie tell how Lile struggles deeply with coming to terms on how she really feels inside, and how she's always felt inside but she has to surpress it and act like it never happened.
I overall definitely enjoyed the movie and I think Alicia Vikander's and Eddie Redmayne's performances were spectacular and I have absolutely no complaints. It was just magical how they brought these two people to life again. There is one complaint though that I could not shake and unfortunately disappointed me towards the end of the movie: Gerda and Lile should have stayed together. Not only would that be most accurate to the real story but also the most accurate to the transgender experience. When someone undergoes gender-conforming surgery they're not becoming "a new person" they are simply matching the outside to what has always been there inside of them. Therefore it makes no sense that they didn't stay in love, because Lile was always the same, she was always she. With them breaking up and pursuing their own love lives it's almost as Einar transformed into Lile and became a new person which is with a doubt just inaccurate and wrong. In the real story Lile and Gerda stayed together after Lile found herself and therefore it would of course make the most sense that they should do the same in the movie.
I really liked the movie otherwise and I would without a doubt recommend it to other people.