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On the cover:
I have seen this DVD at “the stores” for many times but since its cover is in Japanese, I assumed that everything else is in the yellow language and so I procrastinated on buying it. After having a closer look of it, I convinced myself to finally score the video since the cover girl looks like the masterful Uma Thurman, see? And to my awful, side-splitting reaction as I began playing the video, the protagonist definitely belonged to the third gender!
On his stepmother’s shoes:
Patrick Braden is portrayed by Cillian Murphy who also starred in Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Yes, he is good-looking: both straight and crooked. Patrick is an Irish lad who grew up without his parents. He plays guns with his friends Charlie (Negga) and Irwin (Kinlan) but Patrrick obviously prefers his stepmom’s high heels. Patrick prefers to be called Patricia, or more often, Saint Kitten after Saint Patrick’s so-called acolyte. Kitten strutted the catwalks, face lit by a halo of flashbulbs as "Oh!" she shrieks, "I told you, from my best side darlings."
On his very gay journey:
In high school, Kitten wrote erotic essays about how his mother conceived when she was raped by a priest, Father Liam (Neeson). Kitten leaves his Irish town to find his mother who left him when he was only an infant. Kitten encounters Billy Hatchet (Rea) and the Mohawks’ band and she fell in love with the front man. And then Kitten gets discovered by a traveling magician who fell in love with him, or her. Charlie, Kitten’s faithful girl friend rescues him. And then Kitten, having nowhere else to go, works in a peep show. And there, Father Liam, who turns out to be his real father, confesses to him where he can find his mother who looks like Mitzi Gaynor. Later on, Kitten prefers to be called The Phantom Lady.
On the pseudo-Mitzi:
Kitten, dressed as a telephone survey woman, is able to track his mother and he hyperventilates upon seeing her face to face. Ironically, his mother has her own life already and he doesn’t like to torment her. Kitten comes back to live with Father Liam and Charlie, who gave birth with the late Irwin’s baby. But as soon as their sneaky neighborhood knew that Father Liam was housing juvenile delinquents, they literally burned the helpless priest’s house. Oh, tragedy.
Postscript:
I’m giving this eight svelte gamine stars since it was really pleasurable watching a faggot movie without that much nudity, unlike Shortbus. Every film set in the ‘70s is cool to me and here, the oldies but goodies like Chirpy Chirpy Chip Chip and How Much Is That Doggie are definitely classics! Is it waggedy or waggily? Haha. Cillian Murphy’s performance is truly extraordinary! I mean, I mistook him for the beautiful Uma, for fuck sake. He, for a transvestite, is a very sensitive, charming person in the inside. This film is, utterly, a must-see. Neil Jordan had done it again. But this time, there are no handsome vampires on the loose. Only, a slick and sassy cross-dressing dude.
8/10
