Movie Review : Boys Don 't Cry

“Brandon Teena – the person – has been buffeted by various interlocutors and representations as alternately a young transman, a genetic girl, a tomboy, a teenage woman, a butch lesbian who passed as male in the absence of an affirming lesbian community, and as a universal subject who courageously sought to become his ‘true

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Brandon must separate his biological sex from the gender that he wants to portray to society and himself. Judith Lorber states that “[f]or the individual, gender construction starts with assignment to a sex category on the basis of what the genitalia look like at birth” (Lorber 1). This is the case for every individual. When

In an article “'Why did God make me like this?': Parents share incredibly moving film about having a transgender son and why they decided to let him change gender and become a boy at age five” by Snejana Farberrov discuss how one family embraced a daughter transgender by cutting her hair and using male pronouns. The girl who name is Ryland told her parents, she was a boy and from then on more and more they started to treat Ryland as a boy. She told her parents at a very young age that she was a boy.

A transgender teen telling her story, to explain to children why they may feel the way that they do. The outstanding features of the book include, the illustrations and the powerful story of Jennings. Jennings is shown through dominant roles, believing in what she does without questioning what other people think. The culture of the LGBT community has been shown in the best way it possibly could, through the eyes of one its own. The language that is used is age appropriate while still telling how she felt and how she got help. The copyright date of this book is 2014, making it new showing no bias towards the community. Written partially by Jennings she could tell the story that can be accepted by

Déjà vu is a strong sensation of feeling as if you have already lived certain events but are experiencing them again. Déjà vu can be strange and confusing, but it also can be joyful like the 2014 drama film Boyhood. Boyhood was nominated for a total of 6 Oscars and was directed by Richard Linklater. Boyhood stars Ellar Coltrane as Mason, a boy who lives with his mom (Patricia Arquette) and his older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). The story is told through Mason’s eyes as he grows up and faces the similar challenges that we all had to face growing up. Whether it be the struggle of moving to a new home, coping with divorce, or dealing with his annoying sister, Boyhood has something that everyone can relate to.

Boys don’t cry is a movie based on real events that focuses on the incredibly contradicted issues of transgender, ultimately displaying a goal of being yourself. The film is based around Brandon Teena, who is a young female-to-male transgender who flees his hometown because his biological identity had been revealed. He relocates to a small town in Nebraska, where he has the opportunity to start over. He becomes very popular very fast. Brandon meets tons of new people in his new town, and loves to go out drinking with the guys, and is an immediate charm to women, as they are only used to the inconsiderate, wild men that make up a great deal of the town. Brandon quickly becomes “one of the guys” and falls in love with Lana; a beautiful, well-known hometown girl. Brandon does not reveal to her that he was born a girl, named Teena Brandon. His new best friends soon discover this information about Brandon, and things immediately begin to fall apart for him. Once a very well-liked person in this small town, Brandon quickly becomes very hated by his friends. They treat him absolutely terribly, and do unspeakable things to him as they discover his biological identity. He is forced to accept the identity the men say he is, and things get very out of control, eventually leading to the murder of Brandon. Today, gender is a widely discussed issue and we have come a long way as a whole in accepting

When you were born you didn’t have a choice what gender you are. You were either born a female or male. Luckily most people are fine with their gender they are. But some people aren’t like happy with the gender they were born with ……..like transgenders. You may know what transgender means and you may have just heard it around before but not know the full meaning, transgender is a person that the sex they’re born with at birth is different from who they feel they are in the inside. For Transgender kids more specific transgender students aren’t allowed to go by their gender identity ( the gender that they feel they are in the inside ) but some schools have allowed it. The big problem is the

The film Transgender tells the story of a Transwoman by the name of Bree who did not know she has a 17-year-old son before she transformed into a woman. During his time as a man, he had relations with different women but nothing ever became serious for him because she was not being true to herself.

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Written and co-produced by Rose himself and directed by Sidney Lumet, this trial film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing the jurors to question their morals and values. In the United States, a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous. The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: out of 96 minutes of run time, only three minutes take place outside of the jury room.

Brandon Teena being trans man, that is, he was assigned female at birth but his gender identity is that of a man. He wasn’t entirely supported by his family throughout his struggle as a trans man. He was evicted from his cousin’s trailer. Teena Renae Brandon,or Brandon is also enduring a sexual identity crisis. His cousin did not understand Brandon’s identity crisis problem and just said that he was a lesbian. Zooming in on the events that take place in the film Boys Don’t Cry, one can have a deeper understanding of gender identity, by applying the ideas of Foucault and Queer Theory. Such main points considered from Foucoult and Queer Theory are the construction of homosexuality, Queer knowledges/Queer Performances and Scienta Sexualis. Boys don’t cry is not a film that only caters to the viewer’s pleaser, but a film that shows ones struggle with gender identity in a Midwestern society.

To begin we start we the film that was viewed first, Boys Don’t Cry. Boys Don’t Cry offers an insight to the impressions of sexuality and transgenderism in the 1990’s. Five minutes into the film it shows Brandon Teena being chased by a mob of angry guys calling him a dyke (for him having slept with one of the men’s sisters’). That already shows there is hostility towards homosexuality and transgenders.

Most people go about their lives without ever giving thought to their gender. They never blink an eye when they chose to go into a bathroom, when the room is divided by genders, when they walk into the store to buy some clothes and go to either the male or female section. However, there are many people who feel like they don’t belong in the section that they are in. These people who are generally referred to as transgender, struggle everyday with feeling out of place - feeling confused about which bathroom that they should be in or which section in the store they should shop in. 1 in 30,000 males and 1 in 100,000 females rank high on the Benjamin scale, the scale that is used for the identification of persons experiencing gender dysphoria

Society dictates unwritten “norms” of behaviors established within communities. And most communities apprehend anything or anyone that could be contemplated outside the “norm”. This fear conceivably commenced around the world, in all different cultures. In the movie, Ma Vien en Rose (My Life in Pink), director Alain Berliner highlights a family shunned by their own community in retaliation of their seven year old transgender son, Ludovic. There are several interesting aspects within this film that highlight the “fear” of difference. Also, the confusion and anger embedded throughout the movie in regards to misapprehended gender based expectations. The question that Ludovic continues to question throughout the film is, “Am I a boy or a girl”? This analysis will examine the reactions that occur from both the community, and the family.

The film, Boys Don’t cry, is about a transgender woman, whose family does not accepts him for who he is, so then he moves out to start a new-better life. Teena, known as Brandon, falls in love with a women who accepts him for who he is. He is convinced that he has found what he was always searching for; acceptance by a girl, and being able to change his identity without people knowing that he is a she. When his two guy friends find out that he is a transgender he faces his consequences. Because Brandon refuses to perform the gender assigned to him at birth, he is punished through rape—making “him” into a “her” again. This asserts that women are not allowed to express themselves as a man because if a woman expresses herself as a man; she will face her consequences for it.