Einar/Lili: "I am sorry"

Rating: 7/10 (9 February 2016)

The Danish Girl is a man gone through two operations which cost him his life. But he is content what is, what he achieved. All the way along his wife is with him. It started when his wife Gerda asks him to be her model for a/her paintings. Einar agrees and eventually 'discovers' the woman inside. As we all have the counter male/female in us. Nothing special with it. The 'mirror' that allows us to understand the other. What started as a naive game turns to seriousness.
As Carol in the movie Carol learns that everything has its "price of salt" (which is the daughter) is even here a price: Einars/Lilis life. He and his wife are well aware of it and still it is done, the border crossed with no way back. It is 'autistic-literally'. Not enough to know of C G Jungs 'anima'. It has to be more. And beyond. And everything has its price 'of salt'. Too late to return. The border is crossed. And Einar/Lili has not the wish to return. The second operation fails and means his death. But Einar/Lili is content. He has shown that trans-gender is possible - for who ever has the wish to cross the line. He was a pioneer. It is this he expresses in the moment of his death: returning as child to his mother. Not a few followed him as the after-text mentions. Einar/Lili gets the question to return. He denies: "I'm sorry." He never regretted what happened. He dies in piece. As a task was fulfilled. Done
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It can be mentioned that reality was different as described in the book and the movie. There was a divorce. The last picture with the mountain is false too. Denmark is flat.