
Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muay Thai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman. The movie chronicles her life from a young boy who likes to wear lipstick and flowers to her sensational career as a kickboxer - whose specialty is ancient Muay Thai boxing (moves which she can execute expertly with grace) - to finally confronting her own sexual identity, which leads to her sex change op.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muay Thai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman. The movie chronicles her life from a young boy who likes to wear lipstick and flowers to her sensational career as a kickboxer - whose specialty is ancient Muay Thai boxing (moves which she can execute expertly with grace) - to finally confronting her own sexual identity, which leads to her sex change op.
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| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitOne cannot help but be in this winning champion's corner. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansStar Asanee Suwan is tenderly moving as Toom, showing his struggle to find internal peace as he fights savagely to get it. |
| Village VoiceChuck StephensThose in search of a liberating treatise about empowered sexuality may find too much of the movie's erotic potential sublimated in sports metaphors, while those looking for a martial arts matinee will find its feats of physical prowess shriveled next to a fully engorged genre workout like "Ong-Bak." |
| NewsdayJan Stuart'He fights like a man so he can become a woman,' reads the ad, but Uekrongtham's restrained film is neither as lurid nor as kitschy as the tagline portends. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy KleinAt almost two hours, the film might have benefited from some tightening, but that's a minor complaint. |
| TV GuideKen FoxLike his intrepid hero, theater-turned-film director Ekachai Uekrongtham never misses an opportunity to brighten an otherwise ordinary palette with just a bit more color. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionBob LonginoThere is only so much dichotomy one can show between brutal fights and caviar dreams, and the repetition becomes tiresome. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekMade without much finesse and tends to lumber rather than soar, but still possesses a sweetness that's rather disarming. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlIt's too long and simplistic for the slight story it tells. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezThe birth of Parinya's gender struggle is Freudian to the nth degree, but the confusion is evoked as a magical-realist pageantry of clashing cultural and sexual signifiers. |