Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

E. L. I have seen quite a few movies dealing with MTF trans, but rarely one dealing with FTM. So needless to say, I was very excited to see this. And sadly, I couldn't be anymore disappointed. This film feels like a straight up gay male film, thanks to a miscasting of epic proportions. While I'm sure Rick Okon is a fine actor, he has no business playing the role he was cast in. There are so many real transgendered actors and actresses out there, struggling to get work like the rest. And yet, they are denied roles that were basically made for them! It seems very hypocritical for a film that wants to express the struggle of being transgendered. They literally slapped prosthetic breasts on a biological male and called it a day. There are no nuances in Rick Okon's performance to give us any clue that we are watching a pre-op transgendered male struggling with his identity. Not even seeing his breasts can fool me into thinking for the briefest second that he is trans.On top of that, the story was sub par and resembles that of a cheap cliché gay romance flick more than anything. And even that's a stretch, as the romance here is so illogical and poorly done that I was actually irritated when they ended up together. His supposed love interest spends half the film taunting and teasing him, and otherwise humiliating him in public. And then suddenly a light bulb goes off in his head, and we're suddenly supposed to believe that he is instantly redeemed for his transgressions? I don't think so. It is incredibly fake, lacking any semblance of heart.I also have many objections to the portrayal of trans life and emotions. As a trans person myself, it saddened me to see how pertinent questions and issues were just glossed over to make the film a bit more easily digestible to hetero cis gendered viewers. In a perfect world, this film would clue in cis gendered people as to what many trans people experience and struggle with and feel, while making any fellow trans viewers feel a sense of solace and understanding. I don't expect every LGBT movie to be a "Boy's Don't Cry" style tragedy, but I do expect portrayals of LGBT issues to be respected. This film has no respect and no interest in portraying any issues or struggles a real transman faces in the world. Lukas is clearly struggling with his transition, and struggling to find his place in the world as a man who still has his female parts. Yet none of the film's events explore that. In fact, the film contradicts itself by not exploring those feelings, trading it in for cheap pseudo-conflict in the form of the mild teasing and taunting he faces. He is striving to be as masculine as possible, and yet the possible conflict he faces while being attracted to a man, which is by the general consensus of society considered "unmasculine", is never really even brought up. It is a simple, watered down portrayal of trans life that I would only recommend to cis heterosexuals that want to watch a film about a minority, without having to ponder their own beliefs and the harsh realities many trans people face everyday.It's more or less a gay film, with a lead who happens to be trans. It'd be a tad more excusable if there was at least some good drama or romance to be found. And there is not. This could have been an amazing film, and instead it is cheap and even mildly offensive.

billy_dana Sabine Bernardi has nailed a fierce, tight, dramatic and moving story with this outstanding and challenging film. Can't say enough about the acting, directing and filming of this movie.I'm always wowed when the lead character is a whole human being - i.e., not perfect, but flawed and challenged - and you are still compelled to fall in love with that character. Mix that with a topic as difficult for some people (including myself for a large part of my life) as the subject of transgender (and do it well) and it results in a first-class story.Both leads are very good in this story, but Fabio, our lead's romantic interest, is really a backdrop and context for the voyage of self-discovery for the lead, Lukas. The mingling of the process of making the transition from female to male and the growing romance between the two leads is amazing, supple and moving.This is one of the most unique and get-under-your-skin films I've ever seen.

Cyma_Rizwaan_Khan It is becoming really scarce that an indie film has this kind of execution. Good actors, good dialogue, a plot that is like nothing else you've seen. The movie focuses on the identity crisis of a trans person, but then it shows you that the identity crisis, often isn't coming from the person themselves (they're actually pretty sure of what gender they belong to) but its the world who has the real crisis, the people around you, friends, family who are supposed to support you. The way the main character keeps fighting to find his place, it was heartbreaking and just really touching. We see the transformation too, and its just brilliant. I was completely amazed.

Norbert Held Nice little, never boring love and sex movie, trying to convey a serious topic. Nice to be seen for one time. With sexy actors in often sexy action and a funny, over sexy, up to exciting content. There are only few seriously inspiring or aspiring parts: (potential spoiler!) e.g. the voip sessions and the scene with the little sister. Otherwise trivial, shallow or fake.Bads:Extremely cliché rich concerning the following clichés: overly macho-like, violent and homophobic Southern Europeans; homophobic Southern Germans (Bavarians); overly mobbingful young people; sexist clichés in young people, i.e. "all girls are nice and sweet, all boys are nasty and mean"; gay man have sex with each other always and everywhere. All that is not reality and is tiresome to watch.All people in the movie look like super models or at least pretty attractive (in a porno this would be good, a "normal" movie is only rendered incredible). And yes: The average German and also the average Southern European does not look like a model.Rich in crypto-pornography, i.e. something pretends to be non-pornographic, though it's actually not, e.g. if in a movie all people are super-hot with no content-wise reason; normally to be seen in most mainstream US-American movies.The movie shows the life of the roles as consisting only of party, sex, leisure time and a little bit of sleep ("fun porn"), although the protagonist lives in a dorm for civilian servicers/nurses, and I was curious what problems or difficulties may occur in his everyday work because of his transgernderness. That again are elements of crypto-pornography and unrealism.Too much "deus ex machina", i.e. incredible coincidences that are used to support and promote the action; also the cliché elements are particularly used in this way, what the authenticity of the whole movie suffers from.The precarious situations the protagonist runs into because of his transgenderness are also mostly incredible. Real transgenders are just much better in hiding their secrets.The end is no end, the movie just breaks off, and additionally in the best moment, to make the missing of the end dramaturgically particularly meaningful, a true content-wise meaning though (for me) is not recognizable.Gives a simplified (misleading) idea of transgenderness.Goods:The residual of the accustomed girl-like dealing with his female best friend from former times is well depicted by the protagonist.His reactions to the first positive responses from other boys to his new male appearance are well depicted by the protagonist.The female breasts (of the boy) look super-extremely real.In general, the actors do a good job.The basic ideas of the movie are super (would be great, if they would be realized more well in the future).The depictions of the actors are per se good and entertaining to see.Gives a simplified (easy to understand) idea of transgenderness.