Boys Dont Cry

Film Review: BOY’S DON’T CRY

“Boy’s Don’t Cry” focuses on the complicated story of Teena Brandon, a young girl whose sustained efforts to suppress her gender and decided she wanted to be a man. She cut her hair short, taped her breasts back, put a sock down the front of her pants, and switched her name around to Brandon Teena. She hides her female identity and seeks the excitement of a new love and of male bonding with new friends. She made a social transformation into a boy but punished by the intolerance of those who refuse to see beyond her body. The film touches upon the issues that concern the difference between being a lesbian and being a woman who feels she is a man. The film is successful in emphasizing the other characters ignorance, driven hatred and use of violence as a manifestation of their sense of “manhood”.
Brandon ironically, is just the kind of man every girl wants, sweet and sensitive. He was hugely successful with women who seemed to ...