The Writing Songstress

It's January 14, it's a cloudy day, the perfect type of weather to just sloth around the house and watch a movie. Everyone's so excited about Sinulog celebrations, but I'm at home, doing/thinking about schoolwork and watching a movie. I surfed around the net, looking at list of Good LGBT/Gay themed movies to watch, plainly to sip inspiration from, and I came across a great list. There's a comedy I planned to watch, but when I scrolled some more, I found this very intriguing film pic of "Soldier's Girl". The pic is of a man, trying to slip up his shirt, showing off some tattoos or writings and stuff. I read the movie summary, and OMG, it's about a soldier falling in love with a transgender but dying in the end. Plus it's TRUE TO LIFE! WTF? What a good movie, romantic, classy, but tragic.

I started typing on the web for an online streaming but to no avail, this movie's been released 2003, and pirated versions uploaded online, are ofcourse, been taken down and stuff. I went to youtube( it's always our last resort) and to my surprise, there's this very, sweet hearted uploader, who happened to upload THE movie around 3 months ago. Can it be any more coincidental? Like, the whole movie in parts, but think of it, it's uploaded around 3 months ago. This is totally heaven-sent.

So I watched the movie, loaded them on tabs and sat there for like an hour or so. There were parts where it made me laugh, when it made me grin, when it made me feel like I'm Calpernia, and talk out her lines. Every single bit of emotion to be felt was there, I felt it! It's so inspiring to see a type of relationship bloom from two people of totally different sides in the color spectrum.

Then the ending parts struck me, Barry had to die. He was murdered by a fellow, mindless soldier who beaten barry to death with a baseball bat. I couldn't believe it! I could feel my eyes watering up, then my hands automatically covered my mouth, and I was ready to cry. It was painful to see, and to think that that event took place at some time, in real life. It's aching.

The movie for me, had given a very big impact on how I see love and discrimination. The movie depicted well that, love, from all walks of people, can be found. That two people can share strong, mutual feelings for each other, but it wouldn't be easy. That it won't be just a walk in the park. Love, can be taken away from you, slip away from your finger tips and you can't even do a thing about it. It depicted also, the rampant discrimination there is about gays in the military, or even in the each community. This discrimination and harassment should be stopped, to cease the bloodshed and broken relationships. So everyone can have a chance to fall in love, and live our own, happy lives.

Thumbs up to this movie, and Barry Winchell, you've touched my life. Thank you so much for your story. May you rest in peace! Hope I can find a man like you someday, charr!! ^.^