Ma Vie En Rose

Ludo's search for his gender identity is confronted right away in the film.  He is shown dressed completely in drag.  At a party, he wants to look "pretty" so comes out wearing a pink dress, makeup, heels, and women's jewelry.  He comes out of the house just as his parents are introducing his sister, Zoe.  Assuming that he is Zoe everyone smiles and claps, after realizing that Ludo isn't actually a girl everyone is silent and shocked.  His father than defends his appearance by saying he is the joker of the family.  Ludo is at his happiest when he is able to wear a skirt or a dress, but instead of accepting it his parent tend to make an excuse as to why they've allowed, one being that they hope it'll get out of his system.  Treating his desires to be a girl like an illness that can be cured.

Aside from dressing in drag Ludo performs acts that only girls do.  In the bathroom scene, he tries to convince Jerome that he is really a girl because he is able to pee sitting down.  Everyone knows that boys pee standing up and girls sitting down.  He also stole Sophie's costume so he could play Snow White in the school.  Lastly, Ludo overhears his mother tell Zoe that she is a true "lady" after getting her period.  Not understanding what a period was Zoe tells him its because she has cramps.  Cramps is something only girls feel, so when Ludo wakes up to having stomach pains he excitedly runs out the door screaming he's got his period.  In Ludo's young eyes, in order to truly be a girl she also has to act the part.

Pam and the fantasy sequences represents a world with no social construction.  People are able to be who they are with no judgement.  This world is introduced when Ludo's carefree grandmother says when she wants to escape her everyday life, she just closes her eyes and imagines a world where she could dress like she was 20 and no one would care.  This is the point in Ludo's life where he begins to realize that his thoughts and feelings aren't "normal" so he begins to makeup his perfect world.  The fantasy sequences answers all his questions for him, like when he "X" chromosome falls into the trash which is why he ended up with the "Y" instead. Ludo's thoughts are far beyond what his family can and want to understand. So its his outlet from the uptight society he lives in.