Recommended movies and TV shows: Hijra

【Hijra】

Please embrace my soul above my body, believe that love can bring the soul to rebirth, and make me, fortunate or unfortunate, a messenger of God’s blessings.

This is Wan Ting's monologue at the end of the film. Hijra is a pure campus love story about love regardless of gender. The plot describes high school classmates and best friends-Liu Wanting and He Xizhen, who fall in love with the same boy-Wen Tangsheng. With Xizhen's concession, Tangsheng and Wanting officially start a relationship.

Because of an accident, Wan Ting discovered that she had dual sexual characteristics, so she chose to go abroad to complete the remaining operations and said goodbye to Tang Sheng; many years later, a handsome man appeared next to Xizhen and Tang Sheng. The boy-Liu Ting.

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The word Hijra is actually an honorific name for intersex people in India. Just like angels and asuras, there is no gender distinction, and love should not be different based on biological gender. This reminds me of the name engraved in your heart and a passage in the exchange diary, "It turns out that love is the touching of soul to soul. It is not the reaction of gender to gender."!

Just like at the end of the movie, Tang Sheng kissed the surgical scar on Wan Ting's lower abdomen. I think it was meant to be expressed, even if Wan Ting has now become Liu Ting. But what Tang Sheng likes is still that shy and gentle soul, no matter whether the person standing in front of him is a man or a woman.

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Another part I want to mention is Wan Ting’s “coming out” and Tang Sheng’s “being out”. No matter which party it is, it takes time to accept this fact, and the same goes back to our lives.

For example, today a gay person takes the initiative to come out to someone, maybe a family member or a friend. How much time have we spent in the past to identify and understand ourselves? The person who is "outed" may also need time to understand the other party and give ourselves buffer time to deal with the emotions caused by this shock. Of course, now that the concept of multiple genders is becoming more and more accepted, maybe we don’t have to worry about it for so long!

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In an era where the awareness of diverse genders is becoming more and more open, returning to the relationship between people, returning to the essence of love and love, respecting kindness, patience and tolerance are the unchanging principles for every relationship to last smoothly! (the end)