Boys Don't Cry

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Summary: Made my top 20 worst movie list!
Review: Boys Don't Cry has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen! I thought that Hillary Swank's portrayal of Brandon Teena was over-rated. It seems like if you play a character that kisses someone of the opposite sex or someone that's physically challenged, then the Academy automatically hands you an Oscar. Look at Swank, you already knew she was going to win the Oscar before the actually ceremony. I feel that her performance wasn't Oscar worthy! Based on a true story, Swank plays a character by the name of Brandon Teena, a transexual on the run (don't know why?). He/she falls in love with a young woman named Lana (played by Chloe Sevigny). Being new in town, Brandon befriends a group of people, mainly guys. When they discover his/her little secret, you can imagine the Southerners reactions. Chloe Sevigny did a good job playing Lana. When I watched this, there were 8 of us. We were all ready to go somewhere, but we kept saying, "5 more minutes" to each other. It was like, we had to watch it. At the end, we all looked at each other and said that it was a horrible movie!

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Summary: THAT POOR PITIFUL GIRL / NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED
Review: This movie made me sick. I mean,,, I felt like throwing up and I had the shakes for a long time afterwards. Extremely violent <towards the end>, graphic and disturbing. You can hardly imagine scenes more barbaric.

Based on the life of Teena Brandon, a woman, who in a sexual crisis dresses up as a man and actually pulls it off (for a little while) even falls in love with a girl and all that entails. Unfortunately Teena got mixed up in the wrong crowd, though it is hard to imagine an understanding right crowd for her. <I do not know how much of the movie holds true to her real life> Flawless performance by Hillary Swank. In fact the movie is outstanding! as far as the acting goes. A gruesome, tragic story. A chilling movie with not much to feel good about in the end.

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Summary: Swank Deserved Her Oscar Win!
Review: I was rooting for Annette Bening on Oscar night but I hadn't seen Swank play Brandon Teena. After I did, I realized she mowed down every actress in competition with her for the 2000 Oscar race for 1999 films. You could swear Swank is a boy but, when you see her as a girl, you believe that also, albeit as a girl who should have been born a boy. In the love scenes, Swank is especially convincing as a teen girl's boyfriend, which hardly seems possible because she's really a girl herself. This movie will really shake you up though so I wouldn't advise seeing it at the end of a bad day. Brandon hangs around with mostly society's dregs in the heartland and that forecasts her short future as much as her being born the wrong sex.

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Summary: I'm still trying to figure it out...
Review: More like 2.5 stars... Well... The movie had me completly lost until about the late middle of the movie. I wish they would've explained what he/she was running from in the first place, why he/she had to be in court, who the other characters were...? I can't say it was a horrible or even a bad movie. It kept my attention(a little) and touched me in a slight, saddening kind of way. I just don't think it was my "type" of movie...

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Summary: Boys don't cry,but I do cry.
Review: This is not only for gay&lsebian. This is for everyone who cares about "human". Only through rethinking can we lead a better life!

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Summary: Something to think about...
Review: Boys Don't Cry is one of the most intense and devastating movies I've seen in a long while. The feelings of hope and longing, and their counterparts - despair and disillusionment - that so often are part of a homosexual's life are very well described. As the story develops it becomes clear that it will lead to an unhappy ending, but to which extent its ending will be an unhappy one is hard to imagine till one gets to it. Whether the movie accurately reports what happened in real life or not, does not make its fatal outcome any less tragic. The acting in Boys Don't Cry is superb. In fact, along with the plot, I find the acting to be one of the movie's strongest and most valuable aspects: all actors and actresses in this film deserve to be highly praised, but especially - I will admit - Hilary Swank.

However, Boys Don't Cry has its weak points as well: one of them is its cinematography, which I found by no mean up to the movie's standards: the visual language is, in my opinion, dull, and at times even ridiculous in its mocking of modernistic techniques that simply clash in the otherwise conventional context. The soundtrack too could have been better planned. That's why I decided to rate this film "four stars" and not a full five. Overall, I guess, Boys Don't Cry was more concerned with content than with form. And when it comes to content, one most certainly has plenty think about after watching this remarkable movie.

In the year of the World Gay Pride, I wish Boys Don't Cry - or a film of the same caliber - had been chosen as an emblem of the psychological, social and material traumas homosexuals are still confronted with in our society, in the year 2000.

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Summary: Heart Breaking
Review: I've been watching movies for almost 38 years and I have NEVER had an experience like the one I had while watching "Boys Don'y Cry."

Both Hilary's and Chole's performances are nothing short of genius. Kimberly Peirce's direction took both the cast and audience through a cornicopia of emotions. From the sheer joy I felt for Brandon as he found a place that he felt he could call home to the absolute terror of the rape scene, my heart broke for him several times as his story unfolded.

Above everything else that has been said about this movie, I think the one message that came through loud and clear was the basic human need to label people. Wheather the label be man or woman, gay or straight, love or hate.

BUY THIS MOVIE! Show it to your friends and family. No matter what your personal feelings are towards the subject matter of this story, please, please, PLEASE let's not forget Brandon's life and allow history to repeat itself. Next time, it could be someone you love.

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Summary: An American Tragedy
Review: We Americans have a low tolerance for non-conforming sexuality. Director Kimberly Peirce presents us with yet another example of our inability to accept someone in our midst who is not like us. In the setting of this movie there is actually little tolerance for any deviation. You need to be tough, to drink, to enjoy the most primitive forms of recreation. Others have said that the protagonist Teena Brandon had fallen in with trailer trash, but she didn't just fall in with them. She was born into that setting, and played the same role (In real life she was a bigger thief than the movie indicated). If her parents had been wealthy, and she had been a student at Harvard she most likely wouldn't have been part of the world that destroyed her.

Teena Brandon becomes Brandon Teena because she doesn't belong in the body that she was born with. She tries desperately to find some happiness in assuming the role of a male. The movie is unremittingly bleak. None of the characters is remotely close to being happy. There is not one single moment of humor in this two-hour film. The only way Director Peirce could have made the movie more somber would be to have filmed it in black and white. There are no heroes in this movie; even the best of them fail to support one another at some point. Brandon's new friend Lana leaves him stranded on a lonely road, at night, in the middle of nowhere. Candace takes Brandon in, but can't help babbling to the bad guys. Lana's drunken sot of a mother at last finds poor Brandon to be the one person in the world that she feels she can look down on.

We often go to "feel good" movies to see characters who really come through for one another when the chips are down. We cry in happiness that such people exist, and that everyone is happy in the end. You may cry during this movie, but it will be in shame for the terrible things that we are capable of doing to one another.

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Summary: ¡buenisima!
Review: Yo creo que esta pelicula es muy buena, claro esta que toca un tema que aun no es aseptado; es terrible que ocurran crimenes como el que nos muestran en la pelicula, y que la gente que piensa de una manera conservadora, diga "que bueno, se lo meresia", esto ya no se debe repetir.

Uno se encariña con el personaje, y hasta sientes preocupasion por que lo descubran, aunque ya sabemos su terrible fin. RECOMIENDO ESTA PELICULA YA QUE EL GUION ES MAGNIFICO Y LA ACTUACION DE HILARY EXELENTE.

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Summary: Mostly Disturbing
Review: This take on reality was so disturbing, but expressed by such an incredible cast of actors. Although I had seen the documentary and knew the horrific outcome, I wanted to re-write the script with a happy ending. Since this movie, all I can think about is the real Brandon Teena's mother. Where is she now? What's become of Brandon's family ? Have they seen the film ?