Movies Of 1999: ‘Boys Don’t Cry’
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WBEZ
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Fair warning: This movie can be really tough to watch. Boys Don’t Cry is a heart-wrenching biopic based on the true story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was raped and murdered in Nebraska in 1993. The film stars Hilary Swank, who won an Oscar for her performance, with a stellar supporting performance from Chloë Sevigny and a haunting one from Peter Sarsgaard.
Listen as Peter, Tricia and Greta discuss what the movie meant at the time, how it holds up and how it doesn’t. And be sure to join us next week for 10 Things I Hate About You. Don’t forget, we want to hear from you! Join the party and send us a voice recording about any of the movies we’re featuring. Just record yourself on your phone and send the audio file to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, today's episode is about a movie called Boys Don't Cry, and it involves some very intense and graphic sexual violence. |
| 0:08.5 | So I just wanted to warn you before we get started. |
| 0:15.7 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recafs. I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Tricia Bobita and joining us as always is |
| 0:22.4 | Peter Sagle. Yeah, no jokes this time. Hello everybody. Yep, yep, yep, good call. So we have |
| 0:28.2 | been recapping movies from 1999. Today we are talking all about Boys Don't Cry, which is based on a true |
| 0:36.2 | story that happened in 1993 about a trans man named Brandon Tina who was raped and killed. |
| 0:47.1 | So if that sounds like a story you would rather skip, we completely understand. |
| 0:53.1 | But we are going to have hopefully a helpful conversation about what |
| 0:56.3 | the movie meant at the time and how it holds up and how it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, had you guys |
| 1:03.8 | remind me, had the two of you seen this movie before? Tricia, you have, right? I had seen it ages |
| 1:09.6 | ago and I'll be really honest. I did not remember much about it, |
| 1:13.7 | because I think, not that I think we should shy away from things that are difficult to look at or |
| 1:20.0 | talk about, especially if we are not a part of those communities that actually have to suffer |
| 1:25.2 | from these things, that like it's actually important for us to |
| 1:29.0 | try to consume narratives and art that help us understand the experiences of other people i think that |
| 1:34.3 | can be one of the things movies can do in addition to just being a good time they can also help us |
| 1:38.8 | understand other people's worlds and i remember thinking that this could potentially do that but i |
| 1:44.1 | probably saw this movie at least 15 years ago and it had blurred in my other people's worlds. And I remember thinking that this could potentially do that, but I probably |
| 1:44.4 | saw this movie at least 15 years ago, and it had blurred in my memory, and rewatching it was |
| 1:51.0 | really intense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that was this |
| 1:56.7 | devastating, honestly. It was weird. We had talked about the Blair Witch Project, about how that |
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