Ma Vie En Rose

"Ludovic Fabre has no story of his own to tell" says Schiavi regarding narrative forms. This is an interesting concept because after watching it, I felt like I had just watched a story. It to me felt like a family's story, not Ludo's. I am going to bring up an old White quote, "To narrate is to moralize." What is the significance of the story's "narrative"?

I believe that they story is presented in a less narrative arc way to avoid that moralization that white talks about. If the story's values were completely against Ludo then we all would feel awful, maybe not buy into it. However, if the values were 100% for Ludo's feelings then it would not discuss this issue in an open sense. What is the significance of the issue being so open?

The movie is hardly a easy movie with a nice ending filled with closure. Ludo's daydreams of escaping into Pam's world become more and more grandeur. Ever, his mother climbs into the billboard and is able to see her child's wish. I think this movie is made this way to accurately show the complexity of gender today. What is the significance of Ludo identifying with Pam?

Pam is such an extreme. She is blonde with big boobs, who marries Ben (I think) and lives in a dream world with bright colors and the sun shining. Gender is so learned, trained, and forced upon us all with such authenticity that it seems real. If Ludo is merely switching genders then is the significance of that?

Is it that Ludo does identify as a girl and has only Pam as a way to express and show that? Or, it is that him wanting to be like Pam is more ideal to himself. The difference in identification and idealization is small, but big at the same time. We all claim a gender, sexuality, and identity. But why? I used to climb trees because my bother told me girls couldn't do it. Does this make me a tomboy, rebel, or lesbian? This idea of gender and idenfication is in actuality so complex but the world shoves it into little boxes and says you either this or that. This movie helps broaden our thinking of what all that means... I will get off my soap box now haha...