CRUEL & UNUSUAL This award-winning documentary examines the realities faced by transgender women in men s prisons. Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia describe their experiences including rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medial care. Their difficult and revealing stories challenge our most basic notions of gender and justice while raising an important question: Is their treatment indeed cruel and unusual a violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
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"Cruel and unusual"
Transgender Prisoners
Let Amos
Alluvial Filmworks, has just published a remarkable documentary, which deals with male transgender prisons. I do not think it was saying too much attention, but let me that "Cruel and Unusual" one of the most interesting and fascinating films I've seen long time ago. Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, Reid Williams has taken on a subject that most of us know nothing and have done an incredible job ofthe matter to the public. The film is a thorough investigation of men transsexual women prisoners in the United States and the reality is sometimes even shocking. They talked about the treatment of transgender persons is a violation of their fundamental rights that the Constitution of the aid the United States. E 'disconcerting to see how these people treated by prison staff and judges. What is even worse than they are oftenforgotten, ignored in the prisoners and guards. It is hard to imagine that a woman in a prison rights reserved. It seems that the American system of criminal justice inmates in prisons not on the basis of their sex organs condemns their sexual identity places. The five "women" in the film describe the treatment they received in prison and some of these experiences include rape, punishment, violence, isolation, and more than anything else, the denial of appropriate medical care. II found my views on transgender people and called for the reality of the story told by the respondents here had me look at the problem from a completely different way. E 'was only recently that I began to really understand the nature of this type, ie, and to see people have problems that these people have a real revelation. Perhaps I should add that the problems do not fight unnecessarily taxed at a group of people who have no possibility to challenge the system. AlthoughCharacters are represented here, biologically male, after listening to their stories, it is very clear that men, because they have male sex organs. Otherwise, they are behaving women – how women think like women. However, they are held in an atmosphere that they can only do harm. It is easy to have the attitude that since they are criminals, we must not lose time with them. It is very important to remember that criminals are also human beings and of these women, "for" theirnext to the men in this film. Two of the respondents are self-mutilation – the removal of the testes and penis in her hand and it is shocking stories. The fact that they refused to hormone treatment during his detention – after she was involved with before he attempted suicide in prison, and other horrible things caused. Women are more honest to admit their guilt for the crimes committed, and I agree that the sentence should serve butWhy is that care should be rejected? The American Psychiatric Society recognized gender identity disorder as a legitimate state. If so, why transgender denied the right to adequate medical care? A deeper problem is to consider what the prison is about issues such as this face. It is because these people ignore the reason behind bars, their needs and to violate human rights? This moving and thoughtful look at the abuse,Isolation and inadequate medical care from the American detention facilities made available. I've learned how difficult it is to stand and in a situation where everyone else will be the same. The five women in this film is harder to break the heart. Their courage and their desire to be what they feel, they show us a new kind of hero. Imagine what a non-citizen to protect the SU Then try to imagine behind bars as a person, would be gay. Compoundsthat with the idea that you are having trouble deciding what your gender. If you can do, then you have an idea how these people suffered. I feel like I really learned a lot from this movie and if nothing else, at least showed me to be in a completely different way different.
When a big-city blonde bombshell rolls into the small town of Squamish, she throws the entire male population into an uproar. By unexpectedly making Eve, a waitress in a local diner, the center of attention, this sexy stranger will disrupt her plans to win the heart of the most eligible bachelor in town. This charming comedy is full of lust and laughs with a little Love on the Side.
A romantic feast rich with the tastes of life, love and spices. A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father’s curry house.
When a feisty young woman returns to her home to attend her father´s funeral, she´s shocked to learn that her family has sold half of the shares in their Indian restaurant. Inspired by her colorful friends and budding new romance, she works towards saving the establishment and besting its competition.
Nina’s Heavenly Delight I enjoy the dvd. Scotland and East Indian culture what a mix. Eye catching, especially the food.
Cute & Enjoyable I found Nina’s Heavenly Delights to be an enjoyable fair. Rated against other lesbian film, I’d say it’s great; but as just a film against all films, it’s just cute and enjoyable
When the Vice President’s plane goes down near a remote Pacific island he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom.It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary (both of which happen to be lesbians) to infiltrate the camp and save him.System Requirements:Run Time: 88 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 796019798884 Manufacturer No: 79888
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Capitalizing on the charisma of John Stamos and Eric Dane, Wedding Wars is a romantic comedy with a political agenda–gay marriage. No, Stamos and Dane don’t play lovers, but rather estranged siblings. Dane leaves behind his McSteamy persona from Grey’s Anatomy to portray Ben, a slightly uptight man who ends up hiring his gay brother Shel (Stamos) to be his wedding planner. The two seem to be getting along famously, but then politics enters the fray. Ben is engaged to the governor’s daughter, and the governor (James Brolin) has taken a public stance against same sex marriage. Though his constituents seem to approve of his political agenda, Shel doesn’t. And he shows his displeasure by walking off the job. Though the comedy gets a tad preachy about the inequalities gays face in society, Wedding Wars handles a serious subject in a funny and touching manner. The governor isn’t as homophobic as his politics would have you believe. And the film gently addresses how t (more…)
When a feisty young woman returns to her home to attend her father´s funeral, she´s shocked to learn that her family has sold half of the shares in their Indian restaurant. Inspired by her colorful friends and budding new romance, she works towards saving the establishment and besting its competition.
Amazon.comFour Minutes recalls the lineage of films dedicated to marginalized characters who find solace in piano playing, such as Jane Campion’s The Piano, yet there is more to this drama than the story of a woman yearning for autonomy. Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung), a prisoner described as the type to “steal a smoke from a corpse” by another inmate, is wasting away in a German penitentiary until she is recruited by piano teacher, Traude Krüger (Monica Bleibtrau), to train for a contest coming up. Krüger, who sees Jenny’s fingers keying organ music on her church pew in Sunday mass, realizes Jenny’s innate talent and slowly heals her student through music as well as through conversations revealing their mutually difficult pasts. While Jenny’s violent outbursts continuously disrupt her piano privileges, Traude heroically defends Jenny in meetings with the hard-edged warden, Mr. Meyerbeer (Stefan Kurt). The crux of the story lies in the friendship forged between these wo (more…)
Amazon.comGray Matters has one of the most adorable casts of any movie in recent years–the combined sweetness of Heather Graham (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Bridget Moynahan (Lord of War), Molly Shannon (Year of the Dog), Thomas Cavanagh (Ed), Alan Cumming (X-Men 2), and Sissy Spacek (Carrie, In the Bedroom) narrowly avoids being diabetes-inducing. Gray (Graham) and her brother Sam (Cavanagh) have been best friends forever–so close that they find it hard to date. Gray pushes Sam into asking out Charlie (Moynahan), but when Sam and Charlie hit it off so well they spontaneously decide to get married, Gray finds herself unexpectedly dismayed… but not as dismayed as she is when, on a girls’ night out before the ceremony, she and Charlie share a drunken kiss that sets Gray’s body tingling. Gray Matters juggles a lot of emotional issues; the sibling interconnectedness problem doesn’t flow smoothly into the coming-out story of the movie’s second half. But sprinkled (more…)
Carmen Elias and Susi Sanchez star in director Juan Carlos Claver’s drama exploring Spain’s “social danger” laws through the story of two lesbian lovers whose relationship is marred by tragedy. As the film opens, middle-aged Elvira is saved from a suicide attempt and charged with the murder of her longtime lover Pilar. As Elvira’s memories come flooding back, the viewer is transported the early 1970s, when young teachers Elvira and Pilar first fell in love. When Pilar’s mother discovers that her daughter is involved in a lesbian relationship, she sends the frightened girl to an asylum where electroshock therapy is employed to “cure” her perversion.
The brave young woman vows to wait out her stay so she can one day be with Elvira again, but years of inhumane electroshock therapy and isolation take their toll, threatening what both once thought to be an unbreakable bond.
This movie is supposed to be based on a true story, which made parts of it even harder to watch. Scary that this took place in my lifetime. One woman was sent to a mental hospital given electroshock therapy for years to “cure” her of her lesbianism and her lover was threatened with arrest. But the love that they had for each other survived everything. And it’s convincingly portrayed. The acting by the two female leads is incredible…AfterEllen.com
