Fluid camera work filled with shots of window frames, mirrors, and reflections emphasizes the story’s doubling, narrowness of view, and constant thinking about fixed ideas and viewpoints of themselves, of others, and of how others might perceive them. Then they discover that the head of the family staying with them is a renowned plastic surgeon specializing in sex changes. Alex, or at least her mother, is looking into whether Alex will undergo gender reassignment surgery. Fed up with hormone pills and forcing her complex body into a strictly female form. Eventually we learn that Alex, an intersex child, is beginning to go through puberty and is grappling with her (so far she’s been raised as a girl) sexuality. Kraken seems to feel his primary role is protector especially when it comes to his child Alex, a secretive and aggressive wild child who provokes Álvaro another young teen who has come to visit along with his family but both kids, each feeling themselves misfits, end up developing an intense connection. Here are eight movies on Netflix which explore sexuality in all its explicit glory (while avoiding the glory holes, but we can leave that to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.) Next. Filmed on the Mar de Plata coastline, XXY shows an unpredictably wild but gorgeous seaside where Alex’s father works to protect and rescue sea turtles endangered by the area’s fishing industry.
