Posted on 09/13/2016 7:51:47 PM PDT by Cronos
Walter Hill's (Re)Assignment, a revenge thriller about a hitman who undergoes an involuntary sex change at the hands of a mad doctor, was dogged by controversy before it was even made, but many a great movie has been made from a premise that seemed ill-advised or worse. (Re)Assignment is not one of those movies.
...(Re)Assignment, which Hill co-wrote with Denis Hamill, is framed through the institutionalised musings of Sigourney Weaver's Dr Rachel Jane, a back-alley megalomaniac who performs cut-rate gender reassignment surgery on the "unfortunates" who cannot afford a more reputable, less unlicensed surgeon. Her true passion, though, is the more speculative work she performs on unsuspecting subjects, the kind she can pay henchmen to snatch off the street and who won't be missed later. When hitman Frank Kitchen kills her beloved brother, the good doctor sees an opportunity to combine her vocation with her desire for revenge: She kidnaps Frank, knocks him unconscious, and when he awakes, he's been, at least physically, transformed into a woman, one who bears a strong resemblance to Michelle Rodriguez.
The film’s core premise is that it's possible to change a person's sex without altering their gender
..Even without a penis between his legs, Frank is, as the doctor regretfully concludes, "still a macho man".
Rachel, who favours suits and ties when she's not stuffed into a straitjacket, claims to have "liberated" Frank from "the macho prison you've been living in", but (Re)Assignment is still stuck in one, depicting a world in which femininity has been all but erased. The men are men and the women are masculine,
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No. The most you can accomplish is to physically mutilate them to resemble someone of the opposite sex/gender. Gender/sex is set before birth, when that male or female sperm meets that egg. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of our physical being.
I had no desire to see this movie, and still don't.
The role of desire pales before that of choice.
I’ll pass. A little tired of that as the main plot of the story.
“I had no desire to see this movie, and still don’t. “
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Me neither and I’m a frequent movie goer—— and can’t wait for “ The Girl on the Train”.
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Outrageous.
Even though I'm part Irish I tend to hate Irish movies because they're often depressing or at least maudlin. The Crying Game was no exception.
I did like Waking Ned Devine and The Commitments but that's about it.
Oh. Should I have given a Spoiler Alert?
Personally, I’d watch Sigourney Weaver read the telephone directory, but, to be sure, this flick sounds like a massive turkey.
The end of Frankenhooker was funny when the reanimated girlfriend puts her boyfriend back together from the parts of the Hookers that exploded from his SuperCrack.
I’m afraid I’ve never seen Frankenhooker.
I’ve heard it’s something of a cult favorite, though.
“Did anyone ever mistake you for a man?”
“No, how about you?” — Sigourney Weaver in Aliens
(I never saw it, just heard about the line)
So, he's still a man?
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