Two Worlds. Same Grid.

Throughout Ma Vie En Rose, our lead character Ludo, as well as everybody around him, is constantly bombarded with normalizing powers of heterosexuality, or as Judith Butler puts it, the "grid of cultural intelligibility."  Despite the status-quo standing its ground and gradually pummeling Ludo into succumbing to normativity, Ludo doesn't budge and stands his ground, and pummels the status-quo into realizing who he really is.  This ties in with Butler really well because the influence of this grid has been so institutionalized in our culture, that Ludo, like society, has identities that "naturalized."  Even in the face of irrefutable "evidence" that he is a boy, Ludo, with rose-tinted glasses, insists that God will finally give him an X chromosome, and that he'll finally become what he was meant to be; a female.  The fact that the movie brings up how sex-determination is considered factual also reinforces the influence of the heterosexual matrix.

This is also evidenced by the "World of Pam."  In a way, it can be argued that the parallel universe of the "World of Pam" serves to parallel society's norms as the other end of how the grid of intelligibility influences people.  It's implied that through his attraction to this show, Ludo identifies as female.  The world that's presented through this fictional show reinforces Ludo's gender identification.  The fantasy sequences serve as a representation of Ludo's ideal world, a world where nobody can berate or reject him for how he acts and how he carries himself, a world that accepts his actions while rejecting those who go against them. The film spends some time going back and forth from the "real world,"  to the "World of Pam," demonstrating that in a way, these worlds are absolutely no different from each other at all, and that Ludo is being treated unfairly just because his personal norms don't line up with society's.  Ludo's ideals are no different from the ideals of his parents, friends, neighbors, or society.  In other words, this movie shows that the influence of the grid of cultural intelligibility and heterosexual matrix has "naturalized" people's perceptions of the body, gender, and desire.  And it's because of these social constructs, that the grid fuels the main conflict of the movie.