My favorite Almodovar movie is "All about my mother" and this monologue made me fall in love with it. Agrado (meaning pleasure in spanish) is a transsexual prostitute who is trying to compensate for a cancelled performance of a Streetcar Named Desire. This is how she explains herself and her list of plastic surgeries:"People call me Agrado because I always try to please everyone...I used to hook on bridges, near the cemetery… apart from pleasing, I'm genuine…… almond shaped eyes, 80 thousand; silicon in lips, forehead, cheeks, hip and butt… it's
sixty a liter. you add it up, because I stopped counting… Tits? Two, I'm no monster. Seventy a piece, but these have long ago been paid off...
Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.
