1. Boys dont cry
He was not treated as a victim and was forced to tell his true identity and sex under enormous distress. Following this Brandon is killed by the same men that brutally raped him. This is basically just the shell of the movie, the concrete happenings. There is so much more going on in this movie and being said by this movie.
To start off, this movie pushed the gender roles as most in the US see them today. This movie could have easily been portrayed "Jerry Springer style", but instead asks viewers to understand both Brandon's desire to be himself (a boy) and his new family of friends" willingness to share in his illusion. This movie well represents different points of view and different themes at the same time. A line in the movie really struck me as being the essence of the movie. "It looks so different from the outside." Lana said this one night with Brandon sitting outside of the factory she works at. This theme holds strong throughout the movie. It appears within every relationship Brandon enters into throughout this movie.
I read an anonymous comment on a site about this movie that the writers of the movie "Boys Don't Cry", Kimberly Pierce and Andy Beinen, took a simple stone and turned it into a multi-faceted diamond without beating the audience over the head with it. The more I thought about that idea, the more I realized I couldn't have said it better. There is more than one side to look at in any situation.
The first thing that some people may want to do when watching this movie is give a label to what Teena is feeling. Is she a lesbian with a fantasy, a transsexual, a cross-dresser? Labels can be demeaning; they can come with a stigma. Thankfully this movie never resorts to those, instead showing how she feels. Viewers are almost forced to focus on the idea that sex and gender are not the same. Sex is only the biology of who you are, gender is the collective things you do, the way you act, dress, etc.
I dont know. ... I dont want to talk to him about it; I dont want to talk to him at all. ... I dont know what he thinks he's doing. ... I dont want to make a fuss, because I dont want to get involved. ... What was odd, however, was that he seemed to expect me to be upset and cry when...
"I DONT WANT YOU TO COME HERE." ... When the two boys met each other for the first time, Kingshaw was lied to by Hooper about the bed he slept in. ... He did not dare to look at the dead things in the room and became so helpless that he actually started to "cry with frustration." ... The two boys discussed about death and we learnt that Hooper believed that "humans are only animals". ... Apart from the two boys who are both victims in different ways, the two adults are also victims of their societal, family and personal expectations, under certain circumstances. ...
God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...