Prodigal Sons (2008)
1/10
Very misleading marketing
8 September 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This film was marketed as a story about a trans gendered person.

It is actuality a story of a family struggling to cope with a head injured member who is unpredictable and violent. His sister just happens to be a trans gendered film maker.

I was very disappointed. To hear Marks repetitive ramblings was annoying. To see a family acknowledge his injury yet continue to try and treat him as normal or expect him to react as normal was aggravating.

Obviously, this family cared about this man. But what this film illustrated best was the dysfunctional dynamics which occur in families struggling to deal with an unpredictable head injured person.

This is very good as an educational tool for families on how not to deal with a head injured person.

The trans gender issues were secondary, if even relevant to this film.

I truly believe the filmmaker was looking for an angle for marketing it and appealing to the trans gender issue was probably the most viable for her.
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