The Danish Girl is the true story of the first ever transgender operation that took place. The story revolves around a happily married couple who does not have kids but are content with their life as it is. The man works outside while the wife makes paintings and sells them. Recently she is making a painting of a woman and has hired a woman to model for her painting. One day the model does not arrive especially when the painting is almost done and Gerda Wegener is finding difficulty in finishing her painting.
Suddenly she gets an idea and convinces her husband Lilli Elbe to pose as the woman just for the day. Elbe agrees for his wife and later the painting goes for a rate Gerda had never expected. Everyone loved the model in the painting. Soon Gerda has her husband posing as a woman so she can make more paintings and even takes her (or him) out to parties dressed as a woman. The problem arises when Elbe says he loves being a woman and wants to be an official woman hence, goes to the clinic and finds out he can get a transgender operation that will make him a woman for the rest of this life.
Gerda is skeptical at first but, then for the love of her husband agrees, only to regret later when she realizes he’s not the same person she fell in love with. Though this is a true story of an artist Elbe who underwent the first transgender operations back in 1930 and became a woman from a man but, on the movie front you kind of feel sad for Gerda who ends up losing the love of her husband is left alone as another woman enters the movie and takes the place along aide Elbe.
Suddenly she gets an idea and convinces her husband Lilli Elbe to pose as the woman just for the day. Elbe agrees for his wife and later the painting goes for a rate Gerda had never expected. Everyone loved the model in the painting. Soon Gerda has her husband posing as a woman so she can make more paintings and even takes her (or him) out to parties dressed as a woman. The problem arises when Elbe says he loves being a woman and wants to be an official woman hence, goes to the clinic and finds out he can get a transgender operation that will make him a woman for the rest of this life.
Gerda is skeptical at first but, then for the love of her husband agrees, only to regret later when she realizes he’s not the same person she fell in love with. Though this is a true story of an artist Elbe who underwent the first transgender operations back in 1930 and became a woman from a man but, on the movie front you kind of feel sad for Gerda who ends up losing the love of her husband is left alone as another woman enters the movie and takes the place along aide Elbe.