Actually got around to going to the cinema yesterday, after having been sort of planning to go to various shows since Easter… Major achievement.
Anyway, saw The Iron Ladies – tagged – reasonably accurately, as it happens – as a “thai feel-good comedy about a transsexual volleyball team”. It was great. Uhm, let me modify that. As a film it was not great. It was basically Cool Runnings with cross-dressers. And though I have no idea whether the west has actually gotten further tolerance-wise than eastern Asia, western art has certainly moved on a bit. The treatment of the issues was heavy-handed, to say the least. Though I suspect any subtelty they may have achieved would have been lost in the translation (the trouble with Thai is that even the tone and intonation is foreign to me, and so I have to rely more or less solely on subtitles that were worse than usual, the translator seemed to be in a muddle over the rules of volleyball for one thing, mixing such terms as “game” and “set” throughout). But the characters are delightful enough to make the film worth watching anyhow. Highly recommended.
Music in the room: Love is All Around – The Troggs