The material is treated so seriously in the film, you’d swear changelings are real. It’s clear that he’s spent an enormous amount of time creating a reality for this world and thinking through the struggles of a person with no stable visual identity. Starting with the idea of what exactly is a changeling and how would that person live and find love in today’s world, Cerrito dives pretty deep into his subject matter. Where writer/director John Cerrito excels is the world he’s built in The Way You Look Tonight. It’s not the perfect allegory, but it makes a big statement and lends itself to some interesting after-film conversations. The Way You Look Tonight is a sci-fi, rom-com allegory about being transgender and gender fluid. Will Peter be the first to settle down with a changeling? Will he learn to accept and cope with Heloise’s radical daily appearances? There’s also a political message of discrimination as changelings are unable to get driver’s licenses/IDs, government benefits, jobs working with the public, and find long-lasting love. Once again freaked out, Peter immediately ends the relationship but decides to attend a Changeling Support Group and gets a better understanding of the trials and tribulations of the growing changeling population in America.
Peter’s first real test occurs when he wakes up to a male version of Heloise. Every day Peter grows more and more accustomed to the daily changes of Heloise-changes in her age, race, and…gender.
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