Boys don't cry and its location
Boys Don’t Cry is a film that makes you think. When I left class, and for the most of the next day, it was in my head. I had never seen it before and the dramatic way that it ended shocked me a great deal. I thought the reaction of the two men was quite drastic. I think it has great deal to do with where the story took place. It does make all the difference that it was a small town in the south rather than large city. I do agree that there is prejudice in every city and people everywhere are always afraid of what they don’t understand but the difference here is due to exposure. If the men had been around homosexuality and gender confused individuals they wouldn’t have reacted in the drastic fashion they did. Granted they were trouble men with histories of crime but many other places around the country had this happened, a confrontation would have settled it. It was, however terrible, a well made film. And I think it can teach people about things they are not so familiar with or at least make them think a little.