BOYS DON'T CRY (seen on 7-2-2009) - a Netflix movie
Director: Kimberly Pierce
Starring: Hilary Swank, Chole Sevigny
Awards: Oscar
Said to be based on a true story in a tiny Nebraska town, this is abt a young woman who cross-dresses as a man with the name Teena Brandon and has fun with boys and girls. When the truth becomes known the boys are outraged and become unreasonably violent towards her and towards the girls who shelter her; they forcibly remove her clothes to confirm that she is a girl, gang rape her and finally (when she goes to the unsympathetic police) kill her off along with the girl who sympathises with her. This tragic end outrages us too, for as a hermophrodite she hasn't hurt anyone aroud.
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