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Boys Don't Cry
Title: Boys Don't Cry
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 663 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry
The movie is about a girl named Brandon who embodies the ongoing dilemma of masculine identity. You see Brandon riding in the back of a pickup truck trying to act like a boy, you already know that 18-year-old Brandon's efforts to act like a boy are complicated by the fact that he is a girl, born Teena Brandon. The movie is based on a true story, the movie opens with Teena (Hilary …showed first 75 words of 663 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 663 total…leads to a trip to the sheriff's office. And so another truth comes out. Brandon must confess his crime - that he is a she - at the same time that he narrates the rape for the cops. John and Tom are undone, and they can only destroy the person who represents their loss of self-assurance, their questions about themselves. The tragedy is tremendous. But the film never makes it seem freaky or startling, or even deviant.
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