Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry The movie is about a girl named Brandon who embodies the ongoing dilemma of masculine identity. You see Brandon riding in the back of a pickup truck trying to act like a boy, you already know that 18-year-old Brandon's efforts to act like a boy are complicated by the fact that he is a girl, born Teena Brandon. The movie is based on a true story, the movie opens with Teena (Hilary …

…a trip to the sheriff's office. And so another truth comes out. Brandon must confess his crime - that he is a she - at the same time that he narrates the rape for the cops. John and Tom are undone, and they can only destroy the person who represents their loss of self-assurance, their questions about themselves. The tragedy is tremendous. But the film never makes it seem freaky or startling, or even deviant.