Born in the wrong body
Yay! Dutch quality tv-channel VPRO has started a Youtube channel.
On Line now: 30 minutes: Born in the wrong body, a semi-realistic docu by Arjan Ederveen.
It’s all in Dutch, but really worth watching so I put it up here anyway.
“30 minutes” is a series of fictitious documentaries. The story is invented and the people featured in it are actors. But it’s so realistic that it’s hard to believe this is not reality-tv.
This episode is about a Dutch farmer who feels he is born in the wrong body: he thinks he is an African tribesman. It’s really weird, because on the one hand it’s hilarious: the farmer will “transition” and takes a skin coloring treatment, will get surgery (nose and lips, etc), learns how to throw a spear, hunt, etc and will go to Africa eventually “to his people”. But on the other hand the whole thing reminds so much of transexuality. At the end, you end up being very confused about how we tackle the whole subject of identity.
Add comment April 21st, 2007