Trans Allegories in Film: 'Shrek' (2001)
Films can alleviate alienation by presenting realities where the viewers feelings are shared by onscreen characters. The film 'Shrek' can be interpreted as a transgender story.
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Wendy is a middle-aged woman who is constantly dismissed and made to feel invisible by the men in her life. One day while working in her garden, she pricks her finger on a thorny cocoon, and is infected with something… inhuman. After she is suddenly let go and replaced with a younger woman by her boss at a job she’s enjoyed for decades, her rage, (along with alien DNA), transforms her into a powerful creature, hellbent on revenge.
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Wendy is a middle-aged woman who is constantly dismissed and made to feel invisible by the men in her life. One day while working in her garden, she pricks her finger on a thorny cocoon, and is infected with something… inhuman. After she is suddenly let go and replaced with a younger woman by her boss at a job she’s enjoyed for decades, her rage, (along with alien DNA), transforms her into a powerful creature, hellbent on revenge.
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