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A review by thriftstoreclown
Pageboy by Elliot Page
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Stalking, and Torture
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deadnaming, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Excrement
Some of these subjects are kind of par for the course when contextualized with what we know about Elliot publicly already (as a public figure who came out as a lesbian in 2014 before eventually coming out as trans) such as lesbophobia, transphobia, religious bigotry, mentions of (potential) hate crimes. But Elliot’s story is also full of history not only around the Canadian landscape of his youth, but also of characters that he has played, and he does not shy away from sharing all of the gory details of a local explosion that devastated Nova Scotia, or even the way that one of his film characters was murdered. , which are mentioned in great detail. There are also several instances mentioned in detail where Elliot describes being sexually assaulted , and he also describes other instances of verbal abuse, often closely linked.