A chi ha visto il film “Dallas Buyers Club”, consiglio caldamente la lettura di questo articolo di Time, che stronca senza troppi complimenti il personaggio di Rayon, donna transgender, interpretata da Jared Leto:

Davvero interessante il parallelismo con Hattie McDaniel, la celebre ‘Mamy’ di “Via col vento”, che vinse l’Oscar come miglior attrice non protagonista portando sul grande schermo un personaggio altrettanto stereotipato.

“What did the writers of “Dallas Buyers Club” and Leto as her portrayer decide to make Rayon? Why, she’s a sad-sack, clothes-obsessed, constantly flirting transgender drug addict prostitute, of course. There arie no stereotypes about transgender women that Leto’s concoction does not tap. She’s an exaggerated, trivialized version of how men who pretend to be women — as opposed to those who feel at their core they are women — behave. And in a very bleak film, she’s the only figure played consistently for comic relief, like the part when fake-Woodruff points a gun at Rayon’s crotch and suggests he give her the sex change she’s been wanting. Hilarious.”