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Beautiful Boxer director Ekachai Uekrongtham has said that if his feature-film debut weren't based on a true story, no one would believe it. He's right, though perhaps not for the reason he believes.

The biography of Parinya Charoenphol, a Thailand-born transvestite who became a champion Muay Thai kickboxer, certainly seems improbable, but stranger things have happened.

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The true unlikeliness of Uekrongtham's film comes from its polished patness, its view of a life in which every event is fraught with single-minded meaning, and pointed toward one single issue.

Beautiful Boxer initially seems as messy as real life, as a Western journalist (Keagan Kang) frames the story by tracking Charoenphol for an article, and nearly getting killed in the process.

But once Charoenphol—whose successes in the ring eventually financed a sex change—begins talking, the film becomes as streamlined and iconic as a fairy tale. Early encounters with the violence of boxing, th