Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This film by Austrian filmmaker Elisabeth Scharang is about Alex, who was born with ambiguous gender and shows his development into a person, who makes his own decisions. In the course of the film the audience can experience how Alex gets more and more confident to also talk about private things in front of the camera and how he begins to really choose what he does. It was very interesting for me, because I followed this story since the beginning, which was at the Austrian radio station FM4. In a weekly show Alex called in for the first time and it was in 2002 that Elisabeth Scharang, who also works at FM4, invited Alex for her show. After that Alex and Scharang developed a close relationship (at least as far as I can see it) and that is also the key to why a film, so small and private as "Tintenfischalarm", can tell us so much about our society. Maybe it's too long and it never really dragged me in totally, but it's interesting and important.