Ma Vie En Rose + Irigaray and Schiavi

Our main character of Ma Vie En Rose Ludovic is a transexual male who feels inside that he is a girl. The movie tries to express to the viewer the difficulties that a transexual individual has to be subject to in the society. Schiavi discusses the "coming-in" expression rather then the usual phrase of "coming-out" that is a phrase to express when usually a homosexual announces their sexuality. The "coming-in" phrase Schiavi uses of Nadeau is used in a way to describe how Ludo seems to have this pre-determined knowledge of his true identity. Ludo's identity as a transexual though is not accepted by the rest of the society that he lives in.

The family he lives with is accepting at first assuming that it is simply a "childhood phase" that he will eventually grow out of it. He is a spectacle for the adults when they first see his strange behavior and they too believe that it is just a regular child phase. The parents just let it go at first, but eventually start to seek the help of a therapist and other methods that others provide.

Later however Ludovic's actions coninue despite the parents attempts to "fix" him and thus other families begin to judge not only Ludovic, but the rest of his family as well. Ludovic's father loses his job and his mother begins smoking. His brothers however aren't effected by this much at all simply because they don't see the problem with their brother until the other children begin to take hostile action against him. There are earlier incidents of riducle of Ludovic that Schiavi address, but according to Schiavi: Ludovic uses silence as a method of survival. After all this pressure the role of the father and mother kind of switch, we see the father lose his aggression towards Ludovic but still harbor this sadness about him and the mother become aggressive and begins to shout and even strike Ludovic.

Ludovic and his transexualism does fit into Irigaray however because his attraction to all things femnine and seeks pleasure in things like dressing up, dancing, and Pam. He wants that which was not his own. But as we see society does not accept him and even his family doesn't until the very end when his mother has the vision of him running to Pam, but even then we can question if she still harbors this disbelief.