This movie touched me in a way I wasn't expecting it to. I watched the movie a couple of years ago when it was first put on Netflix, but I recently watched it again and couldn't help but think "The title of the movie is wrong". When you look up the meaning of Tomboy you find that tomboy means a girl who enjoys rough, noisy activities traditionally associated with boys which means that a Tomboy still identifies as a girl but Laure, or I should better say Mikäel, does not identify as a girl, he is a boy. The title of the movie might mislead some viewers to believe they are watching a movie about, well, a tomboy when in reality they are watching a movie about a boy trying to find himself. He might not explicitly say "I am a boy" but his actions speak for themselves. Mikael is uncomfortable in his body, and feel like one, he stares at his flat chest for long periods of time in the mirror and we can see his desire for it to stay that way, but we know it won't, and when he is invited to go swim with his friends he decided to create his own boy swim trunks and a little bulge so he really does look as a boy. He doesn't identify with his birth given name Laure. He identifies as Mikael, a boy. If Mikael was a tomboy he would might still present himself as Laure and would still wear a girl swimsuit and a shirt while playing soccer.
I don't think the director of the movie understood the character of Mikäel completely. If she did then she would have known that the title of the movie doesn't have anything to do with the main character. There are several instances in the movie where I sensed a misunderstanding of the character, specifically the ending where Mikäel says his name is Laure to his friend, the ending makes you believe that he would come to terms with being a girl but I think that if you paid close attention you know this will not happen. There could have been a better ending to the movie but it still is a pretty good movie that I believe people should watch, as it is a story that will touch your hearth.
I don't think the director of the movie understood the character of Mikäel completely. If she did then she would have known that the title of the movie doesn't have anything to do with the main character. There are several instances in the movie where I sensed a misunderstanding of the character, specifically the ending where Mikäel says his name is Laure to his friend, the ending makes you believe that he would come to terms with being a girl but I think that if you paid close attention you know this will not happen. There could have been a better ending to the movie but it still is a pretty good movie that I believe people should watch, as it is a story that will touch your hearth.