"Boys Don't Cry" is based on true events, and the story revolves tightly around Brendan and Lana's love affair. Their love is both ordinary and special, romantic and cruel. In order to highlight this, the film maintains a sharp contrast between the two, both in terms of picture and story.
When the film shows love, it is so tender that we, like the protagonists, are intoxicated with sweet love and cannot be ourselves; but when showing reality, the film is so cold that the cruelty in the film is so cruel. The moment, every passing second is heart-wrenching.
Brendan is a good girl, but her life is full of unbearableness and pain; Lana is also a good girl, but she has always "hated her life". Happiness begins with their meeting, and tragedy begins with their love. All of Braden's happiness and tragedy stems from the fact that God gave her a woman's body and a man's heart.
Chloe Sevigny's Lana is definitely the kind of "second-look beauty" people call her, and the more you know her, the more fascinated you'll become; Hilary Swank's Brendan is utterly heartbreaking. Broken - When watching the tears slide down her thin face, I believe that people with a hard heart will also be moved. At the Oscars the following year, with his stunning performance, Swank won the Best Actress crown.
There is a scene in the film that is so unforgettable, Lana takes Braden's hand, they dance and laugh and run out of the police station, the sun shines on them, and the smiles bloom on their faces.
Love makes you strong, boy don't cry.
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