orchid

Orchid is a documentary film on intersex. This film started out about a female who grow up knowing she was different. It wasn't until she was 13 that her parents told her that she was intersex and she went in for surgery. After finding out what made Bonnie Hart different she started to enbrace that side of herself. She broke the family secret and found out that her little sister had the same secret. The idea of these sisters going through such a tramatic stage in their lives and never being able to talk about it is very challenging to think of because they didn't know what the other was going through.

Hart did research online about AIS her condition and found others that were having the same experience. She talked to them online and over the phone. The documentary is about her journey to meet all these intersex individuals and hear their story. She even found out that one of her school teachers that help influence her life in the film industry was also an intersex individual.

This film relates to our class because it covers how society feels what our "norms" are and who fall within the spectrum. Hart didn't need the surgery but because she was different the doctors felt she needed to fit in a "box" being female or male only. Hart was different but at the time the social enviroment was telling her that was a bad thing. Hart is unable to bare a child but was able to adopt. She is living a wonderful life w/ her baby and husband. On the out side she fits what society views proper but on the inside she is different because she has a deviant body.

Know I have brought my friend shawn to every movie in the film series. When I first started this course I told him about intersex but didn't go into detail. He was still curious about what intersex was so he found this film very interesting. He was happy that Hart found a male partner that could look past societies perceptions about she her being different and loves her for who she is. He didn't understand why the mother couldn't talk to her daughters about there conditions but he did notice that their father was very accepting of his daughters, just loving them for who they are. The mother was very depressed and close-minded about speaking to her daughters, even at the end when she begain to open up she was still upset speaking in a negative way.