Orlando the Movie

In Orlando, Tilda Swinton is a much more convincing woman than she is as a man. She is quite beautiful and feminine despite the rather androgynous males of the 1600s she was surrounded by. As she evolves into her feminine identity, I thought she was much more natural and "normal". Finally, her last identity was very nonsexual--almost an absence of gender identification. (Her child was also quite creepy, though I think her freedom to be whoever she wants to be is a beautiful idea.) I do not pretend to understand the final scene with the cheesy, androgynous angel singing in his/her golden, Teflon robe. That was probably a reference to the Biblical verse about neither marrying or being given in marriage in heaven and how that ideal is possible on earth, though that is probably a stretch for such a liberal feminist as Woolf.