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Boy Meets Girl (2014)
Boy Meets Girl should be required viewing for all teens or earlier.
As someone who has the personal experience of having made such a life transition, it is hard enough for me to explain it to others, and I'm the one who did it. How Eric Schaeffer did it baffles me, yet I have always believed that being able to put oneself in life from which to tell a story is foundation of what it means to have an imagination. His picture does right by the transgender themes and in truly exploring the depth and bounds of gender and sexuality for all the principal characters, not just the one lead who happens to be trans (both the character, and the stand-out actress who portrays her). At its core, this is an entertaining love story with a few twists, which genuinely has you hating one character or another at any time, yet rooting for the right ones all the time. It is a movie about how dignity and love transcend all labels, yet on a more practical note is simply the best media portrayal of a trans experience (I say "a," because there is no single story to be told), that could really help people who are not trans to understand just what it means to be living that life, and just how special it can be.
This should be required school viewing for every teen in this country, if not beyond. It is fun and entertaining, but with just enough "education" beneath the radar, that you will leave a better person for having taken the 95 minutes of your time. 10 Stars. Hoping for a sequel to come out because I care where all the characters end up and hate not knowing.