Candy
Candy
The complexity and innocence of gender identity and masculinity.
Will's infatuation spirals into an inferno of his embarrassing fixation. With his interior shock of falling passionately in love with CANDY, but despite his fantasy of her being a real woman, she is not. This puts in question his traditional ideas of masculinity, which are articulated here by his mates, who typically think that men in drag are “just a laugh”. But the most excruciating moment comes when Will finally summons the courage to tell Danny/Candy how he feels.
This story of unrequited love, shows the enormous gap between subjective feeling and objective reality, the confusion of desires and how gender fluidity might be experienced by an “ordinary bloke”.
Written by TIM FRASER
Directed by KERRI DAVENPORT BURTON
Produced by CLAUDIE LAYTON