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Kimberly Pierce's Boys Don T Cry

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The award-winning movie, Boys Don’t Cry was co-written and directed by Kimberly Pierce. Ms. Pierce’s ambition to write the script happened while she was in college. Boys Don’t Cry is a dramatization of a true story and the project took Ms. Pierce five years to complete. I did not realize the movie was based on true events until after watching it. The following is based on my opinion only. From the very beginning of Boys Don’t Cry, I felt I missed something. The movie begins with a guy getting a haircut and putting on clothes that seemed too big for him. After a few moments, I realized that the guy was Hillary Swank. She did an award-winning performance playing Brandon/Teena. The movie centers on characters and events in a small town in Nebraska in 1993. Transgender was not a common term …show more content…

I am beginning to understand true human sexuality. I believe that you know and feel what you are, sexually, at a very young age. There are children who are born intersexed or missing specific organs and their parents struggle to come to terms with options. I also believe that some people are born gay. I’m not sure where bisexuality, pansexuality, and polysexuality come from thus far. Nevertheless, back to Brandon; I’m not sure if he was transgender or a lesbian or having a sexual identity crisis, as he states. Would he be living his life as a man or a woman, straight or gay if he wasn’t gunned down by the homophobic jailbird thugs? I must be honest here and say that if I wasn’t watching the movie for an assignment, I would have turned it off before completing it. That’s how disturbing it was for me. I’d gladly rather watch a horror flick or a sci-fi movie. Perhaps my reasoning is that it felt that real and agonizing; not only for the abuse Brandon received but his mental

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