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Tangerine 2015

It is Christmas Eve. What do you expect most people to do? Do last-minute shopping, wrap their presents or be on their way to their loved one's place or sit down cosily awaiting Santa Claus to slide down the chimney to sip their milk and chocolate cookie?

Unfortunately, not everybody's life is cut out so fine. Many in the essential services have to slog through the festivities. For some, it is just another day, another big expenditure.

This film deals with a small section of the population who are kind of cast out from the public eye. They are seen but preferred not to be associated with.

The spirit of Yuletide is in the air in the streets of the bad side of Los Angeles. For transexuals, Sin-dee Rella and Alexandra, it is just a day in their dog-eat-dog life. They just live off the street, earning enough to scrape by offering sexual favours. Sin-Dee had just been released after a 28-day stint in jail for soliciting. She is all riled out to discover that her pimp boyfriend has been cheating on her with a cis-female. In midst of all this are an Armenian immigrant cab driver, a married man with a daughter, and his penchant for transgender prostitutes.

The whole movie, a low-budget endeavour, was shot entirely on iPhone5 using actual transexuals in their natural habitat and showcasing the not so glamorous part of Hollywood. It is a loud movie with a lot of shouting and strong street language. Sin-dee goes in search of her boyfriend after finding out about his new girlfriend. The Armenian cab driver has to deal with his 'infidelity' after his liaison with transexual sex workers is put up in the open by his nosy mother-in-law.

Not everything is hunky-dory in the land of American dreams and Tinseltown.
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(P.S. Why 'Tangerine' as the title of the movie I wondered? Well, probably because tangerine is not quite an orange but wants to be one; just like the trans individuals are not females but want to very much be one! Or maybe it is the background colour of the film when it is shot an iPhone5! Mmmm...)




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