Boys Don't Cry
I think that this story tells a lot about "small town" america, american values and american life. This film shows how ignorant, uneducated, and evil people are. It shows how hostile people are toward those that are different from them. It shows that in america, there is a structured and uniform image that people have to possess, those that do not conform to it are outcasts from society. This movie goes back to what Judith Butler calls gender performativity, and in america, those who do not perform the assigned roles of that given gender are therefore very deserving of abuse, humiliation, and even death.