Southern Comfort,
Geregisseerd door Kate
Davis, VS, 2001, 90 min.
met Robert Eads, Lola Cola en Maxwell Scott Anderson: Deze
documentaire verhaalt over Robert
Eads, een transseksueel die eerst als
vrouw leefde. Eads werd gediagnosticeerd met baarmoederhalskanker, maar
geen specialist wou hem behandelen omdat men bang was dat de reputatie
geschaad zou worden met Eads als patiënt. Toen hij uiteindelijk een
behandeling wist te krijgen was het al te laat om de ziekte nog
fatsoenlijk te kunnen bestrijden.
The film begins in the spring and documents Eads' life through the
following winter.
Eads falls in love with Lola, a transgender woman. He
spends those remaining warm days in the company of his "chosen family":
Maxwell, Cas, and "the rest". That summer, his mother and father drive
ten hours to visit Robert, who is still their daughter in their eyes.
Later that year, Eads makes his last appearance at the Southern Comfort
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, a prominent[2] transgender gathering.
Already feeling ill, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to what
is for them a prom that never was. Shortly after the conference, Eads
dies in a nursing home with his chosen family.
After Eads' death, his ashes were spread across the family farm around
a lone Christmas tree which was to symbolize Robert's many changes and
blossomings in life.
Eads' friends, Tom and Debbie King, also appear in the film. They saved
Eads' life when he collapsed in a pool of his own blood while staying
with them. They initially sought treatment for Eads but were unable to
locate a doctor willing to treat a transgender man.
Robert's lifelong struggle to have his outer appearance match his inner
self is a salient theme in the movie. All persons portrayed in the
movie wrestle with themes of rejection from others, rejection of self,
feeling ostracized from humanity and ultimately crafting their own
lives and personal support systems.
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