XXY (2007) [Dual Audio]

Director: Lucía Puenzo
Starring: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli

Alex lives with her parents, whose reaction to her indeterminate gender has been to exile the family to a small island community in Uruguay. As she comes of age, her parents feel it is time for them to decide if she is to be a woman or a man. Her mother invites some old friends from Argentina to visit for the weekend, one of whom happens to be a surgeon. They also bring their teenage son, who knows nothing of Alex's story but is intrigued by this tomboy.

This was an amazing movie about a hermaphrodite girl called Alex raised as a girl without having any surgeries. It shows the complications she goes through, which genders she is attracted to and the bullying and harassment she endures. There are a couple of mistakes, the first one being the title. XXY is actually Klinefelter syndrome 47 xxy, born with only male reproductive organs. A hermaphrodite with both ovaries and testicles, is actually 46 xy. The title should of been xy instead. The other mistake was when they tried to rape her, they pulled her pants down and said she had both organs, before Vando defended her and pushed them away. It not possible to see this from the outside unless she had both a vagina and a penis, which this is impossible as hermaphrodites only have either a penis or a vagina, but not both. Overall this film would of been a masterpiece, but its a shame the production team didn't research the science of hermaphrodites properly.

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