After Diego's lecture, I watched Wild Tigers I Have Known for the first time. In the scene we saw in class, Logan visited various areas with Rodeo before calling him. When he called Rodeo, he did not move his lips and Rodeo heard a girl's voice, voiced by Ruth Elliott. The slow oscillation of lights in Logan's room and his changed voice despite his immobile lips convinced me to view each scene of the movie as a partially subjective experience. Considering Logan's frequent loneliness, I understood that his false identity as Leah might suggest an unadulterated flow of thoughts and feelings from his person. My guess went well with Logan's dialogue as well as his choice of identity as a girl. His words were straightforward and suggestive when he was Leah. He was mostly only conversational when he was Logan.
The film placed each scene so that, while Logan hardly spoke, the viewer had a subtle understanding of his development. Often he would stand before a mirror and make small alterations to himself. He might write on his torso or try on lipstick. After a fiasco with Rodeo, he donned a wig and full makeup. In these scenes Logan is silent but not inexpressive. The viewer does not require his speech to recognize that he is troubled by the difference between his perception of himself and the perception of the mirror, the perception of outsiders. If desire is as vast a reservoir of impulse as queer theory contends, Logan has particularly more difficulty reconciling his desire with social constraints.
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