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Movie Review: Boys Don't Cry

This was an extremely depressing movie. It can be painful, in a good way if it is done well, to watch characters that make bad decisions, have bad things happen to them, and never see it coming. It is even more difficult when you know it is all based on a true story. This was a well done movie, although it is hard to separate the quality of the movie from the power of the story.

It makes me feel very lucky to live where I do, where the Gay Pride parade is shown on TV and cities provide coverage for gender reassignment surgery. Not that the area isn't without its prejudices and intolerances, but at least it seems to get some things right.