…Because it got some good reviews, I stayed awake for Normal on HBO.
I guess there wouldn't have been a story to tell, if the guy had left his wife and family and gone off, on his own, to make the gender change.
So…what's left to tell? Here's this sweet hunk, the man who played the husband in In The Bedroom, sitting with his wife in their church offices, spilling the beans about how he is a "woman trapped in a man's body." A tear wells up in his downcast eyes.
In his job, he does something about moving heavy equipment around, and his fellow workers are all state-of-the art beer drinking, ass-scratchers.. His first baby steps toward his goal are to slather on his wife's cologne and go off to work. So, how do you think the guys react when they get a whiff of him? Next thing we know, he is wearing golden earrings to work, and moving stuff from here to there in a front loader with his earrings swinging in the breeze, and glinting in the sun. Previous friends are jeering, and snatching off his earrings, causing pain and embarrassment.
This man has been married for twenty-five years to a delicate flower of a woman, played by Jessica Lange and they have a child. He elects to take his female hormones, and play out the whole gender thing in the bosom of his family and his Midwestern town. I tuned out when the little wife started helping this outcropping of a man find women's clothes in a catalogue.
How ridiculous can you get? Of course a sex change is O.K. I happen to be Albert Einstein, trapped in J-Lo's body, but there's nothing much I can about it now without tearing my family apart, and upsetting the whole town. If you have any feelings for the mental health of your family, and you want to make a sex change, you just ask for a separation, and you go to another town to do it. Is that so hard?
Can't we all just realize our dreams, without breaking hearts?
