I have to be honest, I do not know much about the identity struggle such the one "Einar Wegener" suffered from.. but I can get glimpse of what that struggle would be through this movie. I can imagine it was a hard time for such identity crisis to rise up .. but even though the movie showed that there were open minded people that can accept differences around the year 1900 even if these people were few . (----------------This review has spoiler start here--------------)At the beginning of this movie "Gerda Wegener" (wife of "Einar Wegener") who was shown to be more bold than her husband, asked her husband to pose for a portrait as a woman and at that moment "Einar" began to discover what is going on with "him".. the movie just present that self discovery and self awareness at the time where there were no one known before "him" struggle the same. It is a story of "Einar" getting bolder to be "Lili" in a hard period of time.. There were few wondering questions during and after the movie finishes.. probably they came up because I do not fully understand the transformation (was it physically, mentally, and emotionally at once!?). It is a lovely movie to watch with parts of the true story of "Lili Elbe" who was bold enough to accept performing the first gender-change operation to be fully "her".

If you don't know the plot and even don't intend to then this review is for you. This movie shows how beautifully the love can be represented. I just want to say the one word for this movie and that is "AWESOME". I watched this movie at 3 am and my eyes were crying to sleep but this movie just trapped me in its emotions which was the result of the flawless representation and natural acting of the superb actors. Portrayal of real characters is as it must be(advice for the people who said that Eddie Redmayne did not do true judgement with the character) and what to say about Alicia Vikandar, I was internally in love with her while watching the movie. Her expressions and dialogue-delivery just revive the real Gerda Wegenar. Shooting locations are so impressive. It is a beautiful movie. It also contain some nude scenes but there is no sex. Those scenes are the demand of the depiction of the story. Some scene indirectly represents the feelings of Einar Wegener(Lead Male/Female(You will understand after watching the movie) character).Let us see you can feel them or not(I am hinting "Creation of a painting so many times"). If you are really interested in watching a master-piece emotional drama and did not have any hatred for non-straight persons then this movie is specially created to invest your precious time in it.

Sad to see mental illness being normalized by Hollywood in this manner. My rating is 1 of 10. Hopefully people won't buy into this and see through the propaganda. Was hoping for much more, but I felt cheated leaving the theatre. Hoping for better future films for the talented cast.

The acting and the story was really good and interesting. After watching the movie you can feel how much a transgender could suffer in the past when people didn't have information about it. You could even feel hurting with the character. The movie really made me emotional and I recommend it to those you haven't seen it.