The series does not just place a transgender character in the heart of his subject. All prejudices spend there, with humor and emotion.
She puts her wig in place, adjusts her sweater, fixed her reflection in the mirror of the dressing table, the tired look but appeased. Maura, in her sixties, has an announcement to make to his children: one they call Mom or Death … is a woman. “All my life, I was disguised as a man, she explains to his senior. This is who I really am. “
Jill Soloway, former writer of Six Feet under, was inspired by the life of his own father, now become woman, to write Transparency. We follow the daily life of a family in Los Angeles, the Pfefferman, that of Maura and her three children to the lives and sexualities disjointed. “This is a series about family, gender, and the unconditionality of our love for our people face their search for identity, she says. The central question is, do you love me even when I finally be myself ? “ Which is not easy in Pfefferman, selfish siblings, blinded by his neuroses, unable to quiet his fears and doubts to listen to each other.
Sarah, the older, married, two children, maintains an extramarital relationship with a woman; Josh, the youngest, music producer, is struggling to love and be loved; Ali, the youngest, unemployment, is an eternal teenager who experiments with all-will. Jill Soloway said their unhappiness, suffering Maura, trapped in a man’s body (the series is punctuated by flashbacks to his past as a married man, professor of political science), but opts for a light narrative full of tenderness. “Gender Change is a difficult process, which causes a lot of anger and hatred in society, Does analysis. with Transparent I just wanted to make something beautiful, moving and funny. “ Coming Out Maura is not experienced as aggression. He is greeted with a mixture of surprise, curiosity and fun by a family who is looking for itself long ago. ‘ S hildren offset their inability to tell their feelings a form of sexual hyperactivity, “ continues Jill Soloway.
Transparent reverses smoothly, with emotion and laughter, prejudice on gender. It depicts the young bodies and young, black, white, heterosexual, gay, lesbians, trans, questioning their desires, refuses any notion of standard. “We live in a world where everything is done to please the straight white man , is annoyed Jill Soloway. It is he who decides what defines a woman or a homosexual. In my work, I try to reverse these a priori. “ So this hilarious scene where Marcy, transvestite friend Maura, abandoning her sweet voice to adopt another more serious, more” virile “, encourages his son to” be a man “. Transparent work discreetly activist, is even more concretely in its manufacture. Fifty transsexuals were hired on his shooting, supporting actors, extras, writers and consultants. “It was not my original intention, but this series is going to help the cause through the trans world, enthuses Jill Soloway. I receive letters from viewers who were able, thanks to Maura, let them coming out. “
Also director, awarded at Sundance in 2013 for the film Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway applies to his series the visual codes of American independent cinema, glue his characters, stops on their silences, captures the little things of daily life: a look at the alarm clock, the discovery of an old vinyl battery, the sun piercing through a half-open window. “I wanted people to feel the energy that emanates from these intimate moments, the realism of this story that seems so peculiar , she says. I So let the camera live, follow the actors, who themselves improvised a lot and were free to move. “ These are all a natural confusing, starting with Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), which was written for the role of Maura. Awarded a Golden Globe, the actor does not force the line ever, and manages to avoid stereotypes. A beaming by his paternal love, femininity, with its overwhelming humanity.
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