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Sorry if someone has already posted this :) I don't really visit this side of the forums much. Just found out about a trans movie that actually seemed interesting! Thought some here would be interested.
Boys Don't Cry Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOarssJWHhI#)

I can't watch it. Too triggering.

Most difficult film I've ever watched. I got very very upset and I've blocked the most traumatising bit of the movie out, or am in the process of. Whenever I think about it ... rgh

Boys do cry, indeed.

I've seen it. It is very good. I recommend it to everyone who asks.

I agree fantastic movie. Bloody sad but amazing at the same time.. I also own the documentary about his life (The Brandon Teena Story) - also highly recommend, it has interviews with the real Lana, and Lotter from memory (but don't quote me!) amongst others..

It is really hard to watch.  If I consider the movie good, it is because it is so realistic and intense.  Mostly I avoid it.

I remember watching this a long time ago.  I actually was fortunate to have watched The Brandon Teena Story, the documentary the film is based off of first, I preferred the documentary.

I saw it and thought it was pretty good. but can't deal with the "sex" part, and especially the r*pe scene. way too triggering for my dysphoria and such. besides, sad story =( and makes me a bit nervous

I haven't seen the movie yet... a friend linked me the trailer tonight and I was expecting a shallow stereotype filled movie with a trans person in it... but instead it seemed more deep.

But, he gets raped??? and dies??! I thought it was a love story!!

On one hand it is good the public gets a point of view of how we are just normal people... on the other hand, who wants to watch such a gloomy movie? :|

saw it and scared the ->-bleeped-<- out of me.

It felt to me as the male equivalent of "A Girl like Me". Terribly sad and difficult to look at but still a movie you must have seen once.

Quote from: DevinJV on August 21, 2011, 10:31:05 PM
Most difficult film I've ever watched.

The Passion of the Christ still wins my award for that.  Boys Don't Cry may be a close second.

Quote from: RabbitBut, he gets raped??? and dies??! I thought it was a love story!!

The movie is based on actual events.  It was not intended to be a fictional story.

There are a number of movies out there that deal with gender related stuff from the silly to the serious.

Some of them I turned off to watch because they are insulting stupid,  Tootise, Prisceilla, To Wong Foo, for example.

There are serious ones that I have had difficulty watching because I end up in tears, La Vie en Rose, for example.

Boys Don't Cry, however, is one movie at the other end of that spectrum that affected me so deeply that I have not been able  to sit through it. Just the thought of the torture that Brandon suffered fills me with tears. I simply cannot bring myself to sit through all of it because feel so much pain inside.

This movie is one of the reasons that I have so much respect, as a simple CDer, for my FTM brothers. You guys are bravest souls I know, and I can only hope to emulate your courage in all that I do. You have my utmost respect and admiration.

Toni-Lynn

Quote from: I_am_Toni_Lynn on August 22, 2011, 03:15:58 PM
Tootise, Prisceilla, To Wong Foo

None of these are about transgender people though, although Bernadette is a trans woman (in Priscilla) they are mainly about drag queens. 

Watched it. The only part that was particularly difficult for me to watch was the rape scene/bathroom scene. If you're easily triggered you might want to skip past those particular scenes. Overall, I really liked the movie, but I agree with what some critics have said in that the director put her own opinions into it in the end. The final sex scene between Brandon and Lana comes off as him becoming a lesbian as a result of the rape scene (suddenly his dysphoria magically just disappears after he's raped? Not very realistic, that part and nothing about Brandon that anyone who knew him said even suggested that it did happen). Still recommend that everyone watch it, though.

Quote from: Andy8715 on August 22, 2011, 06:44:22 PM
None of these are about transgender people though, although Bernadette is a trans woman (in Priscilla) they are mainly about drag queens.

You are correct, Andy. They do however present a theme that is connected to gender. The public is vastly under educated about transgendered people and lump all forms of gender variant expression together, so the buffoon like presentation in Tootsie, Priscilla, and To Wong Foo become a part of what they perceive as transgender people. IMHO, more people equate RuPaul with being TG than with simply being a man in a dress. This, again IMHO, has a negative impact on the struggle that gender variant people (using a broad term here) have for exception.

Bottom line is, better that people should form opinion and base their knowledge about all (CD to TG -- and points along the spectrum)  on Boys Don't Cry than Priscilla

Toni-Lynn

a movie most people wouldn't even think was to do with trans is the hot chick staring rob schnider, thing is first time i watched it when i didn't know about trans i didn't pick up on it but after my transition i can see the trans meening in the film you can see how upsetting it can feel to be a woman in a man's body.

I thought it was a pretty good movie but the mole on the girl's breast was kind of in my own personal opinion that means absolutely nothing, gross.

In the limited chat of other films and at the risk of digressing - anyone else seen 'Soldier's Girl'?? I thought that was fantastic too.. And the main chick is TS.

Quote from: Kentrie on August 23, 2011, 08:30:59 PM
I thought it was a pretty good movie but the mole on the girl's breast was kind of in my own personal opinion that means absolutely nothing, gross.

I know, right?!

I had my girlfriend watch it with me a while back. She got really upset at me for saying I wanted her to see it :/