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Glen or Glenda

1953 · 71 min

A strange, earnest plea for tolerance told through dreamlike digressions, wooden sincerity and bargain-basement surrealism that feels hypnotic and accidentally bizarre.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
I Changed My Sex!
Overview
Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite known as Glenda; in addition, Alan is undergoing medical treatment to become a woman named Anne; both stories are told by a psychiatrist.
How it feels
Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Identity, sexuality, isolation, love
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror3
    Humour4
    Realism4
    Romance3
    Tension4
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight6

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