Film Review: Boy's Don't Cry
The movie "Boys Don't Cry" is an American movie which stars Oscar winning actress Hillary Swank is a story of a lesbian who pretended to be living a life of a real man. Teena Brandon (Swank) portrays a role of a lesbian who really feels that he is a man trapped in a woman's body. She dresses like a man, talks like a man, falls in love like a man. With the very attractive (or handsome) face she had, she had a number of girlfriends. She made women fall for her without finding out that she was indeed a lesbian. At the same time, Brandon had committed a number of crimes against the state such as forgery, theft and the like. She basically has no direction and life. Her male friend who is used to taking care of her when she gets into trouble one time tries to give up on her and all her wrongdoings. At this point in Brandon's life, she goes out in the streets and sits by bars and gets drunk till she drops. In one of the bars she visited, she met a girl named Candace who took! her to her house and to meet some of her friends. Brandon enjoyed the company of these people and consequently fell in love with one of Candace's female friends, Lana. Lana and Brandon were madly in love with each other but Lana never thought that she w
nd I will not push myself to fit in such a society wherein they condemn people for what they are. Acceptance is not the word, but understanding is." When our friend said these words, we all wanted to run out of the room and cleanse ourselves because we too are part of that society which can be indeed judgmental at times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ t above all, straight, gay, bisexual or what, we should always have self-respect and we should not step on anyone's dignity as a human being. After all these people we deem to be as "sinners" are also human beings who were created in God's own image and likeness. We should treat them as equally as we treat our other neighbors. We personally have experiences of dealing with homosexuals because we too have friends like these. Maybe it depends on the orientation or background of a person before he can accept the idea of homosexuality, but in our case, our gay and lesbian friends are no different from us. They also fall in love and give justice to the meaning of the word love. They also can be happy and satisfied with their lives. They can also get hurt and cry at times. What these people need is just understanding from us. Some of them don't even expect that they will be fully accepted in the society. One of our gay friends even said that "our society is very judgmental a! We all know that here in our country homosexuality is an issue which has long been present but up to this moment, there are still a lot of people who despise the idea of homosexuality. Our group doesn't justify that homosexuality is right, nor wrong. We believe that whatever a person may be, we sho
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