Ma Vie En Rose

3. Ludo’s sex is male as he is a boy however he believes that his gender is female as he loves to wear makeup and put on dresses. We see this first by the title of the movie Ma Vie En Rose translated to English to mean My Life in Pink. This title refers to Ludo’s understanding of his gender as he associates with a non-gender natural color. The color pink is usually associated with little girl as their life style when growing up is filled with the color. A girl’s life style being filled with the color pink starts as early as she born.  When she is born the doctor and nurses check to see if the new born baby is a girl or boy and then if it is a girl put a pink hat on her.

Ludo is not professing his love for the boy next store as boy but rather as he believes his gender is as a girl. We even see this the first time we meet Ludo in the film he is wearing a pink dress. And throughout the film almost every time he is wearing a dress it is pink. We even see him try to identify with   this gender of being a girl by being happy when his stomach begins to hurt. The reason for this he associates this with a women’s period and assumes that he is having his period. Him assuming this mean that if he is having his period everyone around him was wrong and he is a little girl but one of his X’s was throws away.

 4. The role of Pam in this film is to give Ludo a sense of a fairy god mother. Her role when she is presented in the same scene as Ludo it to take him to his own special world that his grandmother tells him about. This world is the world where he has no pressure from his surroundings about him be able to be what he believes god intended him to be. The world expressed through Ludo’s imagination as the lighting of the film becomes brighter and the scenery in the film becomes more colorful.  Pam takes him to a world where he can be happy and comfortable with the clothes he is where and being the girl he is.  This world of Pam is believed to be a magical place as he not only can fly but is given the freedom of what he wants to do. She accepts him for who he believes he is and not what other people think he is. Pam never changes her mind in the film of her accepts of him unlike his parents and even his grandmother.  Her acceptance though it might be in his head is the parent or adult in his life he wished he had. He sees himself to grow up to be women like Pam, someone who is beautiful and who could marry a man. This is specifically seen in his imitation of the dances Pam does on television.