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But somehow the vital connection is made
To my absolute shock, international mail brought the Blu-Ray I had ordered of Girl Stroke Boy (1971) and with far more dispatch than the regular workings of the U.S. postal system, judging by the simultaneous arrival of the return receipt for last month's rent check. The booklet with its numerous production stills has already been illuminating as well as enjoyable. Successfully ordering a physical copy of an interracial queer and trans film from another country feels like a much bigger deal than it would have eleven months ago.
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I was seriously not betting on it! The space-time properties of this film evidently extend beyond its subject.
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And a nice little tracking note from the Royal Mail informing me of my parcel's arrival!
"The fact that Laurie and Jo also survive the weekend with their dignity intact, his father's acceptance, and the audience on their side is nothing short of a wish come true."
—Jane Giles, "'Is it a man?': The curious case of Girl Stroke Boy" (2022)
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I considered that question and partly because the film is British rather than American, I can't tell! I wondered also if the name "Jo Delaney" might be a kind of mixed nod to A Taste of Honey (1958/61) with its own groundbreaking representation of Black and queer characters, but I suspect that's just me. The equivalent character to Laurie in the stage play is named Lorn and I'm glad that Sherrin and Brahms changed it. [edit] The other literary male Laurie most familiar to me is the one from Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1953) and I really don't know if I can rule that out as a referent, except that if so, everyone walks away from this story a lot more happily than Renault would have been able to stand, which I can live with.
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That ended up being what I settled on. But I have named characters in weird slantwise ways before, so I would never put it past anyone else.
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Of course: £10/$13, which it made it worth the risk since the disc was on such a discount. What really blew my mind was that it took about five days. I'm sorry the postage from Seoul was prohibitive!
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It made my day!
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Thank you! I'm so pleased it arrived. I plan to check out the special features once I have the current movie out of my head (a vague timeline necessitating at least one good night's sleep and less running around on appointments and errands).
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Elemental assistance would make a lot of sense. It could always have been Tungsten.
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