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Summary: A Heartwrenching, Disturbing Film
Review: I had not heard much about this film until Hilary Swank won the Academy Award last March. I saw a segment of 20/20 about Brandon Teena and decided to rent the DVD. After viewing the film once, I bought the DVD. To say that this film is merely excellent does not do it justice. Director Kimberly Peirce has captured America's heartland in full detail: the distubing beauty of its vastness and the ignorance of some of its people. Whereas Brandon Teena would have been accepted in most large cities, he was shunned in isolated Nebraska. The uncaring attitude of the local law enforcement officials enraged me and I I hope the Sheriff of Falls City realizes that he has Brandon's blood on his hands. I saw Chloe Sevigny in "AMERICAN PSYCHO" and her performance here is vastly superior. Hilary Swank has made her Brandon the performance of a lifetime. I can remember no single scene that haunted me as much as Brandon's rape. Yet Ms. Swank does not cannonize Brandon but makes him a real character, flaws and all. It is clear that Ms Swank knew she had to give a great performance - both physically and emotionally - to make this film work, and she nailed it.
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Summary: Boys don't cry
Review: I bought the movie because Alicia Goranson was in it and I wanted to see how old she looks now since she left "Roseanne". But when I watched the movie I couldn't believe how excellent it was and I would recommend anyone to watch it! Although more then half way through it I felt like putting it off and returning it to the store I bought it from, but when the movie finished I thought and still think it is one of the best true life films ever! I didn't know the story or hadn't even heard of Teena Brandon until I watched the film, and I am now going to purchase the book "All she wanted" by Aphrodite Jones.All the actors did a 10 out 10 performance and made the film a watchable experience to see over and over again! The song "Bluest eyes in Texas" was the core song of the film and is brilliantly put in at the end scene as an instrumental!
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Summary: doesn't get it
Review: The author of the blurb on this one obviously doesn't have a clue. Brandon Teena is transsexual, female to male, NOT a woman masquerading as a man. The film is quite wonderful. Yet it fails to get through the blindness and prejudice that did Brandon in.
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Summary: doesn't get it
Review: The offer of the blurb on this one obviously doesn't have a clue. Brandon Teena is transsexual, female to male, NOT a woman masquerading as a man. The film is quite wonderful. Yet it fails to get through the blindness and prejudice that did Brandon in.
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Summary: Excellent romance and murder fiction
Review: From the movie making perspective, it is an excellent movie that depicts the reality of foolishness and selfishness in human beings through the inspiration of a true but brutal story. The overall brutality had been handled with extreme subtlety. The violence happened in a flatline but tragic condition. The romances even elevated the intense emotions carried out through the murder scenes. However, this movie remains to be a fiction produced by the moviemakers. The real truth of the tragedy had been covered up and polished. Some irrelevant scenes had been added in order to enhance the sadness and the confusion, such as Lana Tisdel present at the murder scene. That makes the movie a shakesphere fiction, rather than a movie based on true story. If the moviemaker had inserted some comments about the added fictionalized parts, this movie will truly be a success in any perspective.
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Summary: 'Don't' miss it
Review: The debut film from Kimberly Peirce is an American tragedy almost too devastating to witness, though impossible to look away from. Hilary Swank delivers one of the year's best performances as Teena Brandon, a woman living life as a boy named Brandon Teena, in backwater early-'90s Nebraska. Teena falls for the naive Lana (Chloe Sevigny), another young woman whose dreamy spell is on a crash course with harsh reality. Director Peirce and co-screenwriter Andy Bienen have fashioned an unforgettable film.
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Summary: "Boys Don't Cry" but YOU probably will!
Review: If you are faint of heart or only think movies should have pat and happy endings, then stay the hell away from "Boys Don't Cry" If you're up for something a little darker and more realistic, you will be awed and humbled by this movie. Like a great greek tragedy, "Boys" isn't a happy movie, but one that will stick with you for a long time!
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Summary: Strange, but good.
Review: The story was good, but the people and the trailer park atmosphere really got on my nerves. I got the story from the beginning and was wondering about the rest, but it pulled through. I hate that it had such a tragic ending and that was heartbreaking. There were a few violent scenes so this isn't a movie for kids. But all in all the movie was pretty good.
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Summary: Well Acted "Documentary."
Review: Hillary Swank definetly puts in a stunning performance as a sexually confused girl trying to masquerade as a boy. The raw emotion that drips from her character you could almost grab in your hand. However, if you want entertainment, this movie is not for you. The graphic (and I mean graphic) violence only serves to illustrate the hatefulness and intolerance of society for people having a sexual identity crisis. The rest is just backdrop.
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Summary: boys dont cry
Review: I think that this is an excellent movie,even though it leaves out alot of things about the tragedy. i think that everyone should feel heart-broken and sorry for what the world has come to!
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