I Want What I Want

Films about transexuality are usually treated as high camp, which makes it hard to take the proceedings very seriously. I WANT WHAT I WANT manages to keep from falling into such a trap by remaining more concerned with the personal anguish the character is enduring than with sexual ambiguities. In fact, director Dexter tried to stay as clear from sex as possible while still maintaining a sense of the problems inherent in such a subject. Heywood plays the young man who finds satisfaction in dressing up in women's clothing and adopting other feminine characteristics. A confrontation occurs when his father, a bull-headed brute, catches Heywood in the act. The young man...