Boy's Don't Cry Essay
Boys Don’t Cry
Synopsis:
The film Boys Don’t cry is about a transgender female who lives her life as a man. Born with the name Teena Brandon she inhibits the lifestyle of her male counterparts as Brandon who is just looking for acceptance and to be loved for who she is. The story of Brandon takes place during the ‘90’s in the working class area of a small Nebraska town where he meets up and befriends a group of young people. They are readily acceptant of Brandon being a man, but it is later discovered that Brandon isn’t exactly who or what he says that he is. When the truth is revealed Brandon must take harsh criticism for his deception and even harsher punishment and then in the end loss everything he longed for in his death.
Relating the Movie to the Text: a) There were different dimensions of conflict within this film. There was the conflict of the many people having a dislike for homosexuals which is the umbrella issue of the film. When the characters of the film are examined the conflict occurs between an individual member of one group, Brandon as a transgender, versus another group, i.e. His friends. A lot of the conflict between Brandon and his friends occurred when the discovered that he was transgender, or rather he wasn’t what he seemed. The significant groups in this movie consisted of Brandon, Lana who was his love interest, John who cared for Lana, Tom, Candice, and Lana’s mom made up the group of friends Brandon associated with. The only time that Brandon labeled anyone throughout the movie was when he labeled himself and other transgender when he stated that he was having a sexual identity crisis, but I also didn’t see him label himself or transgender positively, I think this was the result of the majorities prejudice against such things. Lana never labeled Brandon negatively, but she did negatively label herself due to the fact that she implied that she wasn’t good at anything, such as she couldn’t sing, she didn’t feel like she could be much
Synopsis:
The film Boys Don’t cry is about a transgender female who lives her life as a man. Born with the name Teena Brandon she inhibits the lifestyle of her male counterparts as Brandon who is just looking for acceptance and to be loved for who she is. The story of Brandon takes place during the ‘90’s in the working class area of a small Nebraska town where he meets up and befriends a group of young people. They are readily acceptant of Brandon being a man, but it is later discovered that Brandon isn’t exactly who or what he says that he is. When the truth is revealed Brandon must take harsh criticism for his deception and even harsher punishment and then in the end loss everything he longed for in his death.
Relating the Movie to the Text: a) There were different dimensions of conflict within this film. There was the conflict of the many people having a dislike for homosexuals which is the umbrella issue of the film. When the characters of the film are examined the conflict occurs between an individual member of one group, Brandon as a transgender, versus another group, i.e. His friends. A lot of the conflict between Brandon and his friends occurred when the discovered that he was transgender, or rather he wasn’t what he seemed. The significant groups in this movie consisted of Brandon, Lana who was his love interest, John who cared for Lana, Tom, Candice, and Lana’s mom made up the group of friends Brandon associated with. The only time that Brandon labeled anyone throughout the movie was when he labeled himself and other transgender when he stated that he was having a sexual identity crisis, but I also didn’t see him label himself or transgender positively, I think this was the result of the majorities prejudice against such things. Lana never labeled Brandon negatively, but she did negatively label herself due to the fact that she implied that she wasn’t good at anything, such as she couldn’t sing, she didn’t feel like she could be much