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Swiss Army Man and Transgenderism


I've recently come across this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrFVmYRngQ - brilliant video essay from Bobby Burns, explaining how 'Swiss Army Man' reads beautifully as being a secret story about coming to terms with gender dysphoria. On my rewatches I too have felt like Hank is more obsessed with being Sarah and living what he imagines to be her life of domestic bliss than Hank was ever interested in being Sarah's boyfriend.

And considering that this film is all about a character going from a suicidal self-loathing state to a point of 'coming out' and self-acceptance I think it'd be a very valuable film to reach a transgender audience.

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Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and the YouTube video. I totally agree with this interpretation of the movie!

And the end makes so much sense!

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