The poster Boys Don't Cry already tells us that the story the movie is going to tell takes place in a suburban town, and Hilary Swank's stiff face can correspond to the rough realism of the movie.
I have to admit that Hilary Swank was born to play this kind of "man woman" role. A child's shoes who didn't know Swank and the background of this movie must have felt when he first saw the movie's protagonist, Teena Brandon: Well, this is a handsome guy.
Teena is a typical "sexual inversion" girl, with a boy's hairstyle, a boy's squat walking posture, and a boy's way of speaking. Wanting to be a man, she would wear boys' clothes and pants, wrap her breasts with bandages, and stuff her penis in her panties. I would go to the bar to pick up pretty girls. When the movie showed us these things frankly at the beginning, as a person who had never been in contact with such people in my life, I felt uncomfortable. But as the story goes on, my discomfort subsides because I've unconsciously seen Teena as a lad, no different from the lads around us - "blame" Hilary Swank's superb acting skills.
Sister paper Teena chasing sister paper Lana is the main line of the film's plot. Now ask me to describe the three climaxes of the film that create a huge sense of depression.
Veteran "man-in-law" Teena successfully disguised herself as a man, fell in love with Lana at first sight and then fell in love with Lana, and joined John and Tom's gang of punks. John is Lana's ex-boyfriend. It can be said that Teena's appearance has disrupted john's life. Except for Tom, who is a loyal follower, everyone in the gang likes this handsome and approachable "lad". John is really hostile to Teena after knowing that Lana is in love with Teena. He has long guessed that Teena is "unusual". At a party, john and tom violated Teena and forcibly took off Teena's panties. , holding lana to show her the genitals of her beloved "boyfriend". The truth is revealed, and the film's first climax occurs on an otherwise quiet and pleasant night.
Heinous is that after assaulting Teena, john and tom took her to the deserted suburbs and sexually assaulted her - an insulting and venting gang rape, which is the second climax of the film, This scene is definitely one of the most depressing movie scenes I have ever seen. In my impression, there is no soundtrack in this scene, and the camera is in a state of intentional shaking, like watching a documentary. The most terrible thing is that it will show the viewers their own eyes. The feeling of witnessing. I dare say that every child who watches this movie will start thinking of Teena as a man, and sometimes even forget Teena's gender identity as a "female", so this rape scene will "magically" give People have a feeling of "sodomy", not gay children's shoes will feel depressed when they see it, "Little Fresh" people will vomit immediately after seeing it.
Every movie has its own "temperament", and the "temperament" of the movie "Boys Don't Cry" is what I have mentioned many times in my article - depression. Lana, who knew the truth, did not "the last tears fell", but more sympathized and understood Teena. From an objective point of view, they became a pair of les. At this time, John, who has a strong personality, can be said to have reached the point where Teena can't bear it. At the end of the film, he used a gun irrationally to end Teena's life. This is the final climax of the film. "Boys Don't Cry" can be regarded as a non-standard "cruel youth film", and those who like "fragments" will definitely fall in love with this film at first sight...
When watching "Boys Don't Cry", I will think of the famous and wonderful director Lars von Trier's business card "Dancer in the Darkness" many times. The same marginalized people in society, the same extremely depressing movie scene, just compared to "Dancer in the Darkness". "Black" and "Boys Don't Cry" are more realistic (based on real events), and the film uses a lot of rock soundtracks and "pretend" photography. And the wild imagination of the big madman Russ makes "Black" more psychedelic, exaggerated and surreal. When I saw "Dancer in the Darkness", I was crying, and I even thought of the miserable "Selma" as soon as I saw Bjork afterwards; and the depression when watching "Boys Don't Cry" did not follow the ending. That gunshot broke out, it was the kind of "genuine depression" that made people speechless and inexplicable, and the appearance was calm but the core was shivering.
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