Last night the boyfriend and I watched a movie called (entitled?) Whole. Whole is a documentary that focuses on and explores a very small group of people who are 'wannabe amputees'. Through interviews with about six men and, in some cases, their spouses we learned about the lengths these men were willing to do in order to feel 'whole'. One man (the one in the photograph) purposefully put dry ice all over his leg until he developed frost bite. Another man used a shot gun to shoot the offending appendage off of himself. Weird, strange and fascinating. There are comparisons (at least in my mind) between the way these men have always felt 'wrong in their bodies' and transgendered/transexualized (?) people. Though, in many ways, this is far more bizarre and hard to understand.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Whole
Last night the boyfriend and I watched a movie called (entitled?) Whole. Whole is a documentary that focuses on and explores a very small group of people who are 'wannabe amputees'. Through interviews with about six men and, in some cases, their spouses we learned about the lengths these men were willing to do in order to feel 'whole'. One man (the one in the photograph) purposefully put dry ice all over his leg until he developed frost bite. Another man used a shot gun to shoot the offending appendage off of himself. Weird, strange and fascinating. There are comparisons (at least in my mind) between the way these men have always felt 'wrong in their bodies' and transgendered/transexualized (?) people. Though, in many ways, this is far more bizarre and hard to understand.
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