It’s a potent premise that could have been the basis for an insightful story about trauma and healing.Īh yes, the two responses to having a trans child. Now, using the remarkable gift he and his sister share to reconstruct and see the remembered past come to life before their eyes, he wants to know the truth about what drove Mary-Ann to that point.
Tyler - who is trans - has long believed that Mary-Ann’s actions may have been provoked by the fact that he was asserting himself as a boy, that him cutting his hair and running to show her his new short haircut may have been the last straw that broke Mary-Ann’s already frayed psyche. They must return together to their childhood home and prepare it for sale, but doing so means exhuming the past, and in particular the fateful night on which the twins’ mother Mary-Ann pursued young Tyler with a shotgun in her hands, before Alyson stabbed her with a pair of scissors in an effort to protect her brother, causing Mary-Ann to fall into a lake and drown. Dontnod’s latest release, Tell Me Why, is more directly concerned with place and memory than either of the Life Is Strange games with which it shares so much structural DNA, but because it so rarely finds the humanity of its lead characters, the result is a hollow narrative exercise rather than an affecting emotional journey.Īfter years apart, twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan are finally reunited, and before them lies a difficult task. In Life Is Strange, I relished the opportunities I was given to just linger in a location, feeling out the emotional character of a place, how Max felt about it, and what existing there might feel like for her. Tell Me Why and the Limits of Positive Trans Representationĭontnod has a knack for place, for memory, and for the link between the two.
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