A young transgender woman must reconcile with her estranged, conservative, mother in order to carry on her sex reassignment surgery in order to be the woman she was meant to be.
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A young transgender woman must reconcile with her estranged, conservative, mother in order to carry on her sex reassignment surgery in order to be the woman she was meant to be.
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I see where you are going with this… but it does need to be re-worded a bit. Unless her mother is paying for the surgery, you haven’t given us a reason why she ‘must’ reconcile with her mother in order to get the surgery… that’s ok, it just means you should probably do another take and give us a different motivation for the daughter’s goal of reconciliation. (in the logline)
I agree that there should be an objective reason to reconcile with the mother. If the reason is only psychological, the quality of the movie depend only of the writing of the script and the logline can’t go too far. You could just cut “in order to be the woman she was meant to be” because it’s obvious. Since you presented the main character as a transgender woman, I thought she was born woman… maybe you should say a transgernder man?
As the others have said. ?Why must the transgender candidate reconcile with her mother before the ‘final cut’? ?There needs to be a credible reason.
This seems to be similar to?”Transamerica” (2005). ?In that film, the protagonist, born male, needs his/her therapists’s sign off before the ‘final cut’, the ?operation that will finally, and irrevocably, complete his/her sexual reassignment. ?The therapist refuses to give that permission until (s)he reconciles with a 17-year old son, the product of a youthful one night stand whom (s)he just discovered exists. He just got busted in New York City for hustling. ? It’s a poignant movie underscored by dark humor.
One?challenge for this story is to differentiate itself?from “Transamerica”. ?Well, the estranged relative is a mother. ?But, again, why MUST there be an attempt to reconcile with her? ? Is it because she’s underage, needs her mother’s consent? ?If so, then stipulate her age in the logline. ?(And if she needs her mother’s consent, what about her father’s?)
Sex surgery is only part of it.? The main character hopes the mother understands that she is ALREADY a woman (in the wrong body).? She wants her mother to see her as a daughter, regardless.
Not that I know – just some thoughts? 🙂
He may want his mother to accept him as a woman, but that can’t be the only goal for the main character. Once he turns into a she post op, then the mother can be worked on to accept the transformation, therefore whether or not the mother accepts him as he is before he turns into a woman??is not a problem or a small one in the grand scheme of things. The stakes seem very low, as the others have mentioned best to connect the mother’s approval to a practical need of great importance to the main character.