Film Analysis: Boys Don T Cry

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Boys Don’t Cry is a film that aired in the year 2000. The film is about the life of a Tran’s man, a character by the name of Brandon Teena played by Hillary Swank. In the story, Brandon’s friends find out that he is Trans and they are not accepting of the situation. In the end, they ended up beating, raping, and finally killing Brandon Teena after the discovery that he was Tran. This movie shows the kind of control that other people try to exercise on Tran’s people. Brandon’s acquaintances wanted to exercise some form of control over him when they beat raped and finally killed. This is a reality faced by many Tran’s people as third parties try to control them by questioning their ‘decision’ to make the transition to Trans.

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