Soldier's Girl (2003)

Too much of everything

Crappy film

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The best transgender-themed movie I have watched!I like it a lot!I am not yet a transgender but I am planning to start transitioning.This is the first movie featuring Lee Pace, who is an actor in many successful movies even now!Lee Pace is not an actual transgender: he is a man so the character looks more "man" than what a male-to-female transgender usually looks like but the movie tells its story all right!I love the part where the guy starts fooling around with her throwing cold drinks on her. It seemed more "real".I cried at the end. I hate it that it was based on a true story, which made me even more sad :(Stop the hate!

Very sad ending. Why must sexual-minorities have to be the victims all the time?? The movie is about a boy in a army, struggling about his sexual identity. But through the training and the way he was taught, he was really confused. Although this movie is based on a true story, and military training vs. sexual-minorities are arguable, but the reason the boy was killed doesn't necessary have to be because he was homosexual. The killer just wanted some reason to blame him. I personally think the reason could be anything, for his looks, etc. anything that is making him less appealing. But a great movie that portrays how a government policies has to be fixed.

I definitely felt "Soldier's Girl". It reminds me in almost every way of the discrimination caused towards African American's at one point in time. Except, it's somehow more baffling that America didn't learn from its past mistakes and tried to bar an entire group of people, until very recently, who were interested in protecting their country like everyone else, from being able to express themselves freely in the army."Don't Ask Don't Tell" is a really unintelligent policy. The fact of the matter is, somewhere along the line, someone may find out that one of their dorm mates may not be heterosexual. Completely on accident. And once this happens, the amount of harassment and abuse they will face could be insurmountable. Especially when you realize there are no rules to stop this and no one to run to, because these homosexuals aren't even supposed to exist. When you think about it, it's sad, and in some cases, disturbing."Soldier's Girl" does a great job of showing the audience what can happen. There are accurate and powerful performances by the two leads and the supporting cast, and the movie is just long enough to get its point across without making you over-analyze it.Overall, this movie comes highly recommended. I think everyone should watch it at least once.

This is the story of a soldier, Barry Winchell, and his girlfriend, a trans gender showgirl named Calpernia Adams. Barry is a private soldier in the airborne infantry and kind of had a very masculine image among the group. Barry, who is not gay, has little personal conflict when deciding to be with Calpernia and his friends from the infantry especially Fisher cannot not accept the fact that he is in love with a man. This movie made me cry when I watched it. The acting is superb, and the characters are realistically complicated and not at all watered down. The relationship between Barry and Calperina is lovingly drawn, and I really felt their connection throughout the film. This is such a sad movie because Barry was basically killed for being in love and because of the wrong assumption and hatred from his bunkmates.