Synopsis
Trans lives on screen
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Laverne Cox MJ Rodriguez Lilly Wachowski Yance Ford Chaz Bono Jamie Clayton Tre'vell Anderson Alexandra Billings Marquise Vilson Rain Valdez Chase Strangio Zeke Smith Brian Michael Smith Susan Stryker Leo Sheng Angelica Ross Hailie Sahar Jen Richards Trace Lysette Tiq Milan Mickey R. Mahoney Bianca Leigh Jazzmun Alexandra Grey Elliot Fletcher Ellie Desautels Zackary Drucker D'Lo Jessica Crockett Show All…
Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen, Disclosure: Ser trans en Hollywood, Ujawnienie, トランスジェンダーとハリウッド: 過去、現在、そして, Revelação, Разоблачение: Трансгендеры на экране
Aaahhhhh I dunno. This is effective, but something about it also didn't sit quite right with me. Maybe it's just that it's really meant more to get cis people up to speed, or maybe the world has made me too jaded and cynical, but I didn't come out of this feeling... better(?) about anything? Reassured, let's say. Nor galvanized in any meaningful way, either.
It feels telling that the two most affecting moments of the film are the ones where Laverne Cox and Jen Richards start crying while talking about this stuff. I don't know how else you would do it, but on some level it just feels like this movie is mostly just a supercut of transphobic media annnd…
This is for yall uneducated straight cis men and women who dont have a fucking clue at how to treat people with fucking respect
Trans people are people just like me just like you. There is not oh god doesnt decide that or oh God hasnt allowed that. Fuck off with that shit. THEY ARE HUMAN IDIOT! gender doesnt defy a person. Having a penis or vagina doesnt define you feel man or female. You are who you want to be. It's already hard enough for them to feel like they belong with bitches on their ears making them feel like shit killing them for who they are. Who the fuck are they to decide that for a person?
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I have lived as a trans woman, as of the first of this month, for a full year. And I have been exhausted ever since then. I’ve been exhausted because I’ve been deadnamed, I’ve been misgendered, I’ve been stereotyped, I’ve been judged, I’ve been insulted. I’ve been the subject of aggression, micro and macro. But I’ve been exhausted because additionally, I know it’s not just me. Everyone like me, man and woman, between and nothing, and non-conforming, has been dissected. Told that they’re mentally ill, that they aren’t valid, that they’re monsters and that they’re predators and that they’re pretenders. When I think about it too much, sometimes I wonder why people hate us. Why people almost seem afraid of…
Laverne Cox and Jaime Clayton do make several points. They're icons, they're legends and they will always be THE MOMENT
hollywood has let the trans community down.
i feel like some of the points in this documentary could have been explored further and not move onto the next so soon; it kind of jumped from point to point and i wanted to hear more about each film/show. i particularly wanted to know more about media that portray trans people well and accurately. i think it’s very effective in showing the arc of representation of trans people in film and tv, but the feeling of kind of, hope? at the end didn’t sit quite right with me. i know trans representation has come a long way, but there is still so much to be worked on.
i don’t know what the…
An important doc that traces the history of trans rep on screen — good and bad — and speaks to trans people about how they reconcile and relate to those images. You can’t expect a 108 minute film to catch every single trans portrayal on screen but I left feeling a bit frustrated the only transmasc characters we saw and talked about were all played by cis women. Why interview Elliot Fletcher and not talk about his roles in the Fosters or Shameless? Why have so many trans men talk about how under represented we are in media, only to under represent us even further in the narratives you focus on???
I want our legacy to be more than Boys Don’t Cry, I’m so tired
Really brilliant stuff – eye-opening, sensitive and so thorough. The interviewees are all *so* eloquent and thoughtful, calmly explaining how for hundreds of years, well, we've been doing it wrong. Should be required viewing!
Edit: While I enjoyed this a lot, these pieces of writing by two trans critics, Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner, point to just how much the education I felt also does come from my own lack of knowledge, rather than the film painting any sort of full, comprehensive picture.
I would pay good coin to see the face of every transphobic boomer when they’re told that Bugs Bunny is a transfeminine icon.
"I want to cry talking about this narrative because it's just horrible" -Laverne Cox,
- 2020 Ranked: boxd.it/4zdAI
I've never felt like a status I have no control over has made me a target in the media. It's nice and everyone deserves that, but unfortunately society makes it a privilege instead of a right, this film made me think about that a lot and made me want to seek out more trans-friendly media (suggestions are welcome). Disclosure does an excellent job of demonstrating how pervasive negative messages about trans people are in the media and what sort of impact that has psychologically.
The film is an effective primer on representation in film with little depth beyond that. I think a…
This is very much the trans equivalent to the film adaptation of The Celluloid Closet -- it's shallow and scattershot, more focused on reinforcing an already established canon rather than elevating films from the past that could be empowering to people, had they not fallen into obscurity. Would something like The Queen even be so prominently featured here had it not been restored last year?
Billing this as a documentary feels a bit charitable. I understand this is what I signed up for, but it’s basically just a handful of interviews, amidst clips of every movie or TV show that has ever dealt with trans people. Production-wise, it felt like those “I love the 90’s” or “Best Week Ever” type of shows on VH1.
I’m increasingly bummed by the low-budget content Netflix is putting out, and this is no exception. I’m glad that people are enjoying this as much as they are, but, as someone who is already sympathetic to the message, I was just bored out of my mind. I suspect that people are giving this higher ratings more for the message than the actual value that this movie provides.
And just to be clear, *every* character on The L Word was a huge ass hole.
amazing!! really amazing!! i learnt so much about trans experiences and really understood more about the community and its history through this documentary.
“I cannot be in the world until I see that I am in in the world.” My two biggest takeaways are that transgender people need happy stories in media, as often their only exposure to trans people is through media, and they have to know that they are loved and accepted and celebrated,, and that trans characters should be played by trans actors. Sure, it’s an actor’s job to act as someone they’re not, but when the fact that people seeing a cis actor performing as a trans character only adds to the accusations directed towards real trans people of performance and pretending to be something they’re not? No. The trans experience must be portrayed by trans people.
This was…
Just because you see trans representation, that does not mean that the revolution is over.
This is a great documentary, first of all. Second, I agree with basically every criticism of Hollywood there is in this film. Third, MADONNA DID NOT INVENT VOGUE. Glad someone is here to reinforce that point lmao.
When 80% of Americans say they do not personally know a trans person and therefore are only exposed to trans stories in the media, this is one thing they can watch to begin to gain a deeper understanding.
toward the beginning when one of the interviewees refutes d.w. griffiths' legacy as a direct, immediate rebuttal of the previous interviewee's statements i thought this was going to be really critical and complex. but then after that kind of just felt like a supercut video essay about common transphobic themes in tv and film, and it never sustained anything more than a surface level analysis for very long. a great watch for like, a high school media class or a totally oblivious cis person.
I learned so much more than i tho i would. Never knew ab the stigma surrounding drag among black men but i thot that was interesting. Laverne cox is so eloquent. When she talks about the need for more representation so snart
"Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender" ist weniger eine wirklich tiefgehende Analyse, sondern viel mehr Aufklärung für Menschen, die sich noch nie mit dem Thema Transgender auseinandergesetzt haben (und sind wir ehrlich, das sind die meisten).
Erzählt wird "Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender" durch Interviews mit teils bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten der Trans-Community, die hier ohne sonderlich viel Form oder gar Chronologie zahlreiche Beispiele aus Film und Fernsehen geben, die vielleicht etwas wahllos wirken, aber doch sehr eindrucksvoll aufzeigen, wie sehr die Film- und Fernsehwelt das Bild von Transmännern und -frauen geprägt hat. Dass diese dabei zumeist falsch dargestellt und sogar verunglimpft werden, hat wohl schon jeder selbst erlebt. Wie diese problematischen Darstellungen das Leben von Transmenschen ungemein schwieriger machen, ist die Kernaussage von "Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender".
Wer sich für das Thema interessiert und sich im Hinblick auf seinen eigenen Medienkonsum etwas sensibilisieren will, liegt hier genau richtig.
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