Boys Don T Cry Film Analysis
One month ago, Mack Beggs, a high school senior, earned the Texas girls’ state championship and completed a perfect season. Mack Beggs is a transgender boy. The state of Texas refused to allow Breggs to wrestle with the boys because their laws state that high school athletes must compete by the gender listed on their birth certificate. Wrestling fans called Beggs derogatory terms like “faggot” and “it.” Negative Facebook and Twitter comments questioned Beggs and made him seem like a lesser being. Other comments celebrated Beggs’s courage and perseverance. Over the last couple of years, The transgender debate has heated up. In 1999, Kimberley Peirce and Any Bienan co-wrote the movie, Boys Don’t Cry, a story about a transgender male named Brandon
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Falls City is important to the film’s identity and is where the most important moments of Brandon’s life took place. It is where he fell in love, something he was unsure was possible. Furthermore, a girl was able to accept him for his true self and accept him for his true self. Unfortunately, Falls City was where he died as well. It would be powerful to depict the events as accurate as possible. The movie was not a work of fiction, but it actually paints the picture that many transgender people are murdered each year. In fact, according to the Human Rights Campaign, data from 2016 shows, “advocates tracked at least 21 deaths of transgender people due to fatal violence, the most ever recorded” (Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2016). This is important because it demonstrates that violence against transgender individuals continues to occur in today’s society. While the entire production of Boys Don’t Cry was innovative in itself, it could be recreated to help individuals in 2017 to help fuel the transgender right’s movement. Also, I would like to conduct actual interviews with residents of Falls City. I would like to hear personal accounts from people surrounding Brandon’s tragedy. This would include people like Candace, Llana, and even John himself. It could help open up people’s eyes about issues surrounding the transgender
Falls City is important to the film’s identity and is where the most important moments of Brandon’s life took place. It is where he fell in love, something he was unsure was possible. Furthermore, a girl was able to accept him for his true self and accept him for his true self. Unfortunately, Falls City was where he died as well. It would be powerful to depict the events as accurate as possible. The movie was not a work of fiction, but it actually paints the picture that many transgender people are murdered each year. In fact, according to the Human Rights Campaign, data from 2016 shows, “advocates tracked at least 21 deaths of transgender people due to fatal violence, the most ever recorded” (Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2016). This is important because it demonstrates that violence against transgender individuals continues to occur in today’s society. While the entire production of Boys Don’t Cry was innovative in itself, it could be recreated to help individuals in 2017 to help fuel the transgender right’s movement. Also, I would like to conduct actual interviews with residents of Falls City. I would like to hear personal accounts from people surrounding Brandon’s tragedy. This would include people like Candace, Llana, and even John himself. It could help open up people’s eyes about issues surrounding the transgender