Boys Don't Cry - the movie.

This is the movie i chose to watch which was written by both Kimberly Peirce & Andy Bienen. It was directed and filmed in Canada in 1999. The movie won an oscar, 42 wins & 27 nominations. It was top rated by many critics and is looked upon very highly. It wasn't a story with a happy ending but it did shorten my breath after watching it. This movie was amazing & it made me think and constantly shake my head at the television.

Brandon Teena was the popular transfer student in Nebraska. He had it all, the good looks, the confidence & the overall apparence. All the girls liked him and all the guys wanted to be friends with him. He was the ideal boy for all the girls and an idol to all the boys, pretty much. He didn't really look for any girls once he found this beauty named Lana. She was gorgeous and together they made the ideal couple. Everything seemed to be going well for them and they were as happy as could be.

A secret got out about Brandon that he wished never did. Brandon wasn't always a guy, he was born a woman. He had woman parts and spoke like a woman until he got older. He was born as Teena Brandon, that was her name. Once he got older he realized he didn't want to be a woman anymore. He didn't feel like a woman, he felt like a man inside a girl's body. The whole school got around and no longer was he this hot new guy. He was the new guy that they all tormented.

They couldn't remember the boy he was before they found out his secret. They rediculed him and tormented him because he wasn't comfortable in his own skin. This is the last thing he needed to happen because he was accepting himself as a guy and now he can't. Everyone knows his secret and they make him feel like garbage, which is wasn't. He was the same guy before and after the secret was let out.

This movie hurt my heart to be compeltely honest. I never find it justified to humiliate anyone and he didn't deserve it at all. He did nothing wrong to anymore and he was a sweet, gentle man that should have been left alone. I felt so terrible for him and it just taught me so many lessons about life and humanity.