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The Best Thai Transvestite Kickboxing Film Ever
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It would be tempting to call Beautiful Boxer, the true story of the transvestite Thai kickboxer Nong Toom (Asanee Suwan), the Driving Miss Daisy of transgender films. By that I mean it's a well-made, emotionally involving mainstream movie that draws audiences into a subject they might otherwise avoid. It's become fashionable to deride Bruce Beresford's film; Morgan Freeman must have had an inkling of that sentiment when, just before the Driving Miss Daisy was released, he was asked if it was demeaning for a black actor to play a chauffeur and he answered, "God save us from well-meaning white liberals." And black ones, he might have added. The movie's detractors looked at Freeman's Hoke, saw that he wasn't Stokely Carmichael, and concluded he must be Uncle Tom. Had Driving Miss Daisy indulged in Stanley Kramer-style fantasy, had it shown the civil rights movement transforming the South into a bastion of tolerance overnight, or Hoke making fiery speeches demanding an end to segregation, or Jessica Tandy's Miss Daisy suddenly made sensitive to the sufferings of blacks because of the prejudice she endures as a Jew, had it, in short, violated the reality of the era and the psychological reality of the characters, well, then the movie would have been "progressive."
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