Language
When watching this movie I didn’t feel that language had a big role; I felt that the actions of the characters in the film were more important. During the film when the other characters learn about Brandon’s situation, most of them switch to referring to Brandon as “she�. Lana is really the only one that keeps referring to Brandon as “he�. When the others learn about Brandon, they get angry because someone different, someone they don’t approve of, is in their lives. Lana stands up for Brandon because she loves him. This movie doesn’t discuss the issues of what is transgender, cross dressing, or transsexual. This movie is more about the unnecessary hate and violence that is brought upon people who are “different�. At one point in the movie, when Brandon is talking to Lana in jail, he tries to explain his situation and he mentions some medical term and that this condition is quite normal. If I am correct, that is the only instance where we hear Brandon try to define anything. We also learn that he is or is trying to take some hormones in order to get a sex change, but that is also a very brief conversation. I don’t think that Kimberly Pierce’s main focus was to discuss if Brandon was transsexual or transgender; I feel that the film mostly portrayed the problem of pointless hate and violence that we have towards people who don’t fit the “norm of our society�.