If anyone could beat DiCaprio for best actor it would have been Eddie Redmayne. His performance as a young artist who questions his gender and decides to undergo one of the first gender-reassignment surgeries is masterful and brave. Alicia Vikander is equally mesmerizing as his supportive but conflicted wife.The period detail is fantastic. It is truly tragic to witness the harshness of the medical community of the time and how hard it was to be one's self when that self so thoroughly goes against the grain of the time's political and social views and etiquette.
One word I have alluded to that bears repeating is "brave". That is how I would describe this film and its performances. It will open your eyes and make you more compassionate.
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