Not a bad cast but a boring story after awhile.

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2019)

From all the Oscar winning movies from 2016 The Danish Girl was the bottom one for me. With movies like Room, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant or Ex Machina, The Danish Girl is just the least competitive one. Not that Alicia Vikander didn't deserve her Oscar as she's a good actress but the story just didn't do it for me. Even if it's based on real events, Lili Elbe as a transgender pioneer, it's just a story that made me yawn a couple of times during the movie. Eddie Redmayne has the perfect physique to play the role of Lili as he easily could pass for a woman with a bit of make-up on, but his constant girly shy smiling and eye blinking is just annoying after awhile. The cinematography and the acting are good, nothing bad to say about that, but the subject of transgenders is just something completely boring to me. They can do whatever they want with their lives, it's their choices, but in my eyes if you're born as a man you're a man, and that even if you feel like a woman. Nothing wrong feeling like a woman but you're born a man so just deal with it. So yes I might be opiniated about it, like everyone is entitled to his opinions, but that's how I see it and so watching a movie like this one is at one point just waiting for the end to come so that I can watch another and more interesting movie. Next!