1. Boys dont cry
Perhaps one of the most disturbing and most memorable movies I have ever watched was Kimberly Pierces Boys Don't Cry. The first time I watched the movie I wouldn't have ever thought that it would have deeper meaning. Its only purpose seemed to be nothing other that to catch the attention of the viewer. Its graphic content however, makes Boys Don't Cry stand for a much more meaningful purpose than this. It shows what our society can push us to if it is not accepting; a sexual identity crisis. Boys Don't Cry also addresses issues such as homosexuality, homophobia, and ideas about how women should act. The main character Teena Brandon or "Brandon, is a homosexual female living in a very homophobic environment. This is a very real perspective of what it can be like to t be outside the norm amongst society today. This film is based on a true story that somehow makes viewers uncomfortable, but why? Perhaps this lifestyle is out of the comfort zone for the average person. . .
To summarize the movie briefly Teena Brandon was a 21-year old woman whom impersonated a man. After getting herself into some trouble with the law as well as a brother of one of her "girlfriends" from home she quickly latches on to a new set of welcoming people that she meets in a bar one night. Candace, John, Tom and Lana become Brandon's new family in Fall Creek, Nebraska. Although Brandon seems to have made some new friends, they are not what someone would define as accepting or open-minded. John and Tom both possess very short tempers and had just recently gotten out of prison. The strangers seem to take to Brandon because she starts a fight with a man about three times her size the first time they meet her. The only problem is that they all believe that Teena is a man. Eventually all of "Brandon's" lies catch up with him and his new found family is far from accepting. John and Tom rape Teena. After Teena files charges against them, they finish her off at the end of the movie by shooting and stabbing her.
I dont know. ... I dont want to talk to him about it; I dont want to talk to him at all. ... I dont know what he thinks he's doing. ... I dont want to make a fuss, because I dont want to get involved. ... What was odd, however, was that he seemed to expect me to be upset and cry when...
"I DONT WANT YOU TO COME HERE." ... When the two boys met each other for the first time, Kingshaw was lied to by Hooper about the bed he slept in. ... He did not dare to look at the dead things in the room and became so helpless that he actually started to "cry with frustration." ... The two boys discussed about death and we learnt that Hooper believed that "humans are only animals". ... Apart from the two boys who are both victims in different ways, the two adults are also victims of their societal, family and personal expectations, under certain circumstances. ...
God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...
