TIRESIA 2003 French film based on Greek mythology Tiresias, son of Evere and the nymph Cariclo, when young man separated two snakes that were going to mate and was instantly transformed into a woman. Seven years later it did the same and regained its original form. To settle a dispute between Hera and Zeus over the loving abilities of men and women, the gods turned to Tiresias, who asserted that a woman's pleasure is nine times more intense than that of man. Hera punished him by leaving him blind, but Zeus rewarded him with the gift of predicting the future. Hera is indignant with Tiresias because for the Greeks it was very important not to be dominated by the appetites of the body, so to say that women enjoy the sexual act more implied being at a disadvantage compared to men. From then on Tiresias became the fundamental character of the dramas as it happens in the stories of Oedipus, Ulysses and many others. Director Bertrand Bonello (The Pornographer) modernizes the myth. and embodies it in a Brazilian transsexual who prostitutes himself in a forest on the outskirts of Paris. An aesthete named Newfoundland securstra the transsexual and locks him in a piece, spies on him while bathing and ties him up but refuses to have sexual contact with him. The lack of hormones causes Tiresia to regain her masculine traits, which terrifies Newfoundland. Unable to accept that the transsexual has lost that theoretical "extreme beauty" that captivated him, the guy blinds Tiresia and abandons him in the countryside. It is picked up by those who care for it and who discover its predictive gifts. The pre and post roles are played by different actors, both in the case of Tiresia and newfoundland, and to add more confusion there are different characters played by the same actor.
