Upon revealing his real identity of being a woman, Brandon Teena, a young handsome guy, who has recently moved into a new town, where he makes a lot of friends there and fall in love with a young beautiful girl Lana, the thing that brings terrible for him and leads him to be disguised by all people.
[VIDEO ESSAY] Kimberly Pierce's remarkable 1999 filmic version of Brandon Teena's last days is a scalding indictment of the kind of consciously ignorant intolerance that runs disgracefully through America's Heartland and Southern states.
With its constant juxtaposition of blazing nighttime highwayscapes and the flat Nebraska skyline, Boys Don't Cry manages to perfectly evoke both a life spent in aimless forward motion and the stifling boredom Brandon was so desperate to escape.
Reel Film Reviews
October 18, 2008
...undoubtedly benefits from Swank's searing, justifiably lauded performance.
