SUMMARY The film opens with Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) driving in the night. He is going with his cousin, Lonny (Matt McGrath), an older boy who is gay, to a skating rink. Lonny warns Brandon against behaving dangerously. Brandon ignores him and enters the rink, which seems magical to him. There Brandon meets with a girl. Later, we see them kissing outside her home, and Brandon chivalrously tells her he won't leave until he knows she is safely inside. But later, Brandon is chased by a group of young men, one of whom is related to the girl, and all of whom are yelling homosexual-related insults and threats. Brandon seeks protection in Lonny's trailer, and if the audience doesn't know it already, the conversation reveals that Brandon is …show more content…
They find a newspaper that talks about the arrest of Teena Brandon, and show it to Lana's mother. Meanwhile, Brandon has written Lana to tell her that he's in jail. She asks why Brandon is in the female section, and he lies: he tells her he was born a hermaphrodite, but will soon receive a sex change operation to correct his condition. Lana declares her love for Brandon, "no matter what she is" and the two leave the jail joyously, and then have sex in her car. Nissen and Lotter are extremely angered by the discovery that Brandon is really a girl -- in their opinion, she is a lesbian. They are on a rampage looking for Brandon, whom they find at Lana's mother's house, together with Lana. They force Brandon to strip off his pants, to reveal to Lana his "true" identity. Lana only looks when forced to. Later, Nissen and Lotter pursue Brandon and violently rape him in Nissen's car. They return with Brandon to Nissen's house. Although injured, Brandon escapes from Nissen's bathroom by climbing out the window. Lana convinces him to file a police report, though Brandon had been warned by Nissen and Lotter to remain silent. Brandon, in distress files a report. Later, in a drunken rage, Nissen and Lotter set out to kill Brandon. They find Brandon hiding in a farm house with Candace and her baby. Brandon and Candace are fatally shot, while Lana is screaming desperately. Lana falls
after removing the chip from the back of her phone, she hunts down and tracks her alt. After following her alt into an alley, she sees that her alt hired a striker to kill her. She gets shot in the left shoulder and only narrowly escapes thanks to chord scaring them off. After Chord patches up her shoulder, she runs away from him again, but this time, she goes to another striker job. After killing the target, she finds an empty room and sleeps there for a while until her alt’s striker found her and tried to get the jump on her. After getting outsmarted by West, she kills him and runs away to her alt’s house. When she gets there, she finds out that the striker that she killed was her alt’s boyfriend and that the next day, her alt was going to attack Chord. She immediately runs to chord’s house and tells him about her alt’s plans, only to find that he knew all along. The next morning she gives him sleeping pills and sets up a trap for her alt to fall into. When she arrives at Chord’s house, she shoots and misses by a fraction of an inch. She runs over to Chord’s house, after leaving him
Jessie comes and forces her to move to the other side of the room that they are sharing and so many other vulgar things. She killed her dog, pushed her down concrete stairs, stole her boyfriend, and started a fire in the school bathroom with Emily locked in. Emily and Nancy talk about how they need to stop Jessie and during the family camping trip is a perfect time. When they get there, someone throws Emily into a deep grave and hits her with a shovel. She looked up and saw it was Nancy and Nancy said that it was her the whole time and that she hates Emily because Emily saved herself and not her dad 3 years ago.
Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she
Another scene in the play that has a positive impact is when Michael tries to force Alan to play a game that required each person to call someone who he loves the most. Michael thought that Alan is also gay but in denial so he tries to urge Alan to “come out of the closet” by confessing to his true affection on the phone. So when Alan picks up the phone to call someone, everyone at the party thought that Alan is calling another gay man. But it turns out that Alan is calling his wife, his lover and soul mate. Michael is hurt by this acknowledgement because he was wrong about Alan. This scene exhibits not all men who may have conduct like a gay man is gay. Furthermore, it also shows that any man can have gay friends but he still can be characterized as a heterosexual.
Should the minimum driving age be raised? In the article Traffic Safety Facts the NHTSA states that, 5,864 15 - 20 year old drivers were involved in fatal crashes in 2008, which is a 27% decrease from the crashes in 1998. This is still a big number, and has been tried to be reduced by New Jersey, but ended up not doing much, and instead added and increase of car crashes to an older age group. The minimum driving age should not be raised to allow teens to gain experience, learn responsibility, while staying safe altogether.
Dana meets Alice and her mom. Dana leaves their house and gets caught by a patroller who thinks Dana is Alice’s mother’s runaway sister. The patroller tries to rape Dana when she hits him with a stick and she is sent back to her time. Dana is back with Kevin, but she is unable to tell her story because she is fatigued. Dana wakes up and tells Kevin her story about what happened this time when she left.
Nikki expressed how she was sick of them acting out. The argument escalated into more physical abuse. If only this time nikki knew that this particular fight would end in a bad tragedy. Jas hit her mother with a vase over the head. Investigators say that was thee first sign of blood drawn. As nikki was trying to fight back tas stabbed her. After more fighting Jas starts to choke her mother with a ribbon medallion she won when she was younger. After being hit back jas picks up the knife to stab her mother. After all the verbal and physical abuse the twins dragged her to the bathtub in the master's bedroom. During the interview with jas and tas they state that when they put her into the tub she was still alive. Jas said her mother's last word were “ I hate you. You're going to jail.” Jas told her mother she was sorry. After cleaning up the bloody mess the girl walked to school arriving two hours late. Students said that they act as if it was a normal day. The twins came home and they thought the police may have been there unfortunately they were not. Jas managed to flag down a officer passing through in her neighborhood. She told the officer that someone had killed her mother. She said her and her sister missed the bus but immetimatley start to walk to rockdale high school. They told officers that they made it to every class on time. The officer indicated that it seem as if she tried to put up a fight at the moment she was being killed but there was no sign of forced entry. Officers focus on the boyfriend as the prime suspect. After investigating they soon come to realize he had nothing to do with the murder. During interviews with the twin detective started to notice that they had many injuries bite mark, scratches, and more. Detectives immediately started to focus on them, But the twins were stick to their stories. Since detectives did not have a solid case the was forced to let them go. Haneef
She decides to help them all escape. They found themselves at the Hendricks School for boys. While they were hiding in the outdoor garden Lee Grant planted, they get caught by him and Trey. She chose to spare herself and let the three children go. However, they reject her descision and stayed right by her side. The Hating Man reveals himself to be Mr. Talbot and he put her to a test to see wether or not if she actually was a shadow children. He also reveals that Jason didn't betray her and that he is alive and he is working for the Population Police. Finally, Nina decides to fight the Population
Once the half-term holidays have ended, a new girl, Lauren arrives to the school and all the boys, including Joe, have their eyes on her. Soon Joe and Lauren become best friends. Until Joe comes home one day and finds out that his Dad is holding a massive party. This only upsets him a little, due to his father not spending any time with him. Sapphire then shares that she had seen Lauren on TV before. Soon enough Joe found out that his father had decided to pay Lauren, in order for he to befriend Joe. Joe then decides to run away from home.
Ryan and Avery hang out canoeing for a day in Ryan’s small town, and this experience greatly improves Avery’s gender identity. Avery begins to see himself more clearly, and accept his masculine roles. One way this improvement in Avery’s gender identity is shown is when he kisses Ryan before he gets in the car to drive home. That kiss symbolizes that he fully accepting he who is as a person, and that he likes Ryan and is not afraid to show his feelings. Another way the improvement in Avery’s gender identity is shown is when he calls Ryan and goes to see Ryan again, and they go exploring and playing imaginary mini golf.
Not knowing how her mother would feel Mia crept downstairs and out the doors. When she got outside she was greeted by her brother, sister, dad, and her boyfriend. At the bowling alley, Mia and Erik were in teams against Tara and Johnny and then Jeremih switched with Tara. They played multiple rounds until it was time to go eat. Mia's team had won against Tara's team in bowling. After the game, they went to this nice five-star establishment. For an hour they eat, talked, and laughed at some good memories and new memories.
His lack of social skills becomes much more apparent once he leaves the house for the first time. He has no intended destination, and wanders the streets. Once he is hurt by the limousine, he is given an injection to ease his pain. As the doctor fills the needle, he wants to show fear, not because he has had this experience before, but because "he visualized all the TV incidents in which he had seen injections being given" (Kosinski 33). Just like the prisoners in the cave, he was trying to understand a reality based on pictures in order to react to the world around him. One thing that he has never experienced is any type of a sex life. He found himself in a room with EE, where she made a sexual advance towards him. He thought back to a situation on TV where he could imitate an actor in a similar scene. He remembers a close embrace and kissing, but unfortunately
However, Elle immediately rejects him and decide to leave law school. Elle thinks that Callahan choose her in his internship for sexual reasons. However, her desire to quit has been prevented by women Professor named Stromwell. Professor Stromwell convinces her to continue her study no matter what happened. Then, Brooke fires Callahan as her attorney and hire Elle as her new attorney with Emmet supervising. In short, Elle has success to freeing Brooke from being accused to murder and prove that the murder is Chutney, Brooke’s stepdaughter. After that, Warner tries to reconcile with Elle, but she rejects him, and explaining that she needs a boyfriend who’s not such a complete “bonehead” in her new career. The story ends with a happy ending after Elle has graduated with high honors and invited into one of Boston’s best law firms. Vivian has become Elle’s best friend while she had break up with Warner. Besides, Emmet has become Elle’s boyfriend and will propose to her at that time after the graduation.
There were two incidences in the movie that made me feel uncomfortable. The one was when John and his friend forcefully made Lana look at Brandon/Teena to realize that he wasn’t a man, but in fact a woman. I felt so bad for Teena because she was violated. I can only imagine what she was feeling when that happened to her. To be exposed like that in front of someone whom she had grown close to. I was please to see, though, that Lana didn’t turn around and betray her by ignoring her. Instead, she was still here for Brandon/Teena.
Brandon ends up falling in love with a very unexpected type of girl. He first sees her in the hallway inside of the school. He tries to say “Hello” to her, but she does not even lift her head up to acknowledge him. He then sees the same girl outside the school on a bench with her bookbag and a notebook. He says “Hello” to her again and she still does not look up from her notebook. When she does look up at Brandon, he says “Did you really not hear me?!” (Covell, 2012). Emily shows him a sign language signal to show him that she is deaf. She then writes in her notebook “It's alright. I'm Emily.” (Covell, 2012). He then writes his name back to her. One of the themes being shown in this part of the movie is that no matter what differences two people have, there can still be a connection on a higher level.