This is truly one of the most touching films I have ever watched because of the issues being dealt with. The emotional struggle really makes you enjoy the movie, due to the fact that it connects you. In today's society we often conform to the 'norm' and this film challenges that in a way that is not too biased toward either gender; which means people like Alex in this film are looked at differently, which is one of the flaws of society. However in the film, Alvaro tries to overcome this problem and he consistently shows that he loves Alex; however not in the way Alex would've liked. Personally, this film is great and I really did feel that this film is a great way to show how society is flawed; also the fact that I fell in love with the character Alex suggests that there are people out there who are less 'focused' on the traditional. The only criticism is that the that the story is a little hard to gasp at first, but this is excusable given that I speak English and how softly the audio (speaking) was.

Complexity and Its BirthLife on Earth began in the ocean. In the depths of this primordial soup where nature conceived of the first and the subsequent, the natural was born. Eventually, man and woman was born. XY and XX was born. Man and woman was natural. But does natural also mean normal? If natural creation is the source of everything that is a creature, does it follow that every natural creature is normal? Thus, the complex was also born.It is fitting that in the chronicle of Alex's life, the diegetic beginning of the film begins with the beginning of everything, the ocean. The opening credits are shown within the confines of the lulling blue mother of all that is all. The movie will show again and again these motifs, saluting the ultimate life giver.A Complex Life/Love/Human StoryIt is quite obvious that intersexuality presents a host of dizzying conundrums about biology and society. The movie fulfills this preliminary requirement. Brilliantly, the film goes beyond. The beauty of XXY is that it carries its complexity from chronicling the development of Alex's biological life to chronicling the biology of Alex's love life. Complexity runs through the movie like complexity runs through the fractals of nature. When you think you know what's going to happen, an even more delicate and captivating development happens that provides you with more insights and more questions about the characters. One is rarely black or white, bad or good, ugly or beautiful, XY or XX.Complexity: What to Make of It?Life is complex. The filmmakers have enough fortitude to present to us that both blessings and curses are bestowed. Joy to those who are fortunate; woe to those who are unlucky. What will happen to those who are accepted? Those who are loved? Those who are rejected? Those who are despised?

I won't repeat the extensive plot summaries offered by others, but simply say this is a wonderful, affecting film. As others have said XXY is NOT an accurate title for what the character of Alex is going through as this chromosomal picture would likely produce different development for her, but you can forgive it that. Intersex people (not 'intersexuals', or 'intersexed') - a term in growing use is people with DSD (Disorder of Sexual Development) - though rare , and more prevalent than you might think. Hospitals all over the world still take babies with 'ambiguous' genitalia and force on their parents surgery to put their kids into one gender 'box' or the other. Sometimes this can cause horrendous pain for the child as they grow - especially as puberty arrives.Something of this is touched upon here; the parents have bravely refused surgery for Alex (her father calls her 'perfect'), but have had to flee their home to another country in the face of prejudice and ridicule. Society's attitude is coldly portrayed by the surgeon and his wife, whose real agenda is to mutilate Alex to fit society's norms - irrespective of her (or, in fact more accurately, his) sense of self identity.The performances are tremendous, all round. From the two young teenage leads they are astounding. Strongly supported by Ricardo Darin who plays Alex's father. It's a film of great tenderness and compassion, and despite a rather bleak ending conveys great hope as a family grapples and comes to terms with the struggle of the child they thought was their daughter but is in fact their son.Beautifully, sparingly shot. Unsentimental and very moving.

Images, confusion, identity search, fear and seeds of different kind of love. A hermaphrodite and her family. And the others. A doctor and his family. Few days together.Conversation and shadows. And evening of words. A teenager, a girl and the people. Escapes as spider web and the travel to "normality". A poem. About a minority, essence of small lives, parents and children. Few slices about differences as roots of everything. Ines Efron as a strange Alex for who the life is field of obscure country. A question mark. A storm in temple. It is more than a film. It is analysis of desire of happiness. In basic , harsh words. A drama and rolls of silence. Behind definitions.