Boys Don't Cry

[ZONEACE]

Boys Don't Cry#0

Posted: 7/17/06 at 3:31am

I know we have a "Gay movies" thread or two, but i felt this movie needed it's own thread.

Anyway, IFC is having like GAY Cinema month or something, and Boys Dont Cry is on right now. I've only seen the movie once before, but it was, and still is one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. It's so hard to watch and yet completely compelling.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[munkustrap178]

re: Boys Don't Cry#1

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:48am

I caught some of this last night too. I think it's a fantastic film, and in hindsight, so completely happy that Swank was awarded appropriately.

I just with Sarsgaard would start to get recognized...

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Unknown User]

re: Boys Don't Cry#2

Posted: 7/17/06 at 10:04am

I thought this was about the awesome Cure song.

[Becky2]

re: Boys Don't Cry#3

Posted: 7/17/06 at 10:24am

I hope they plan on airing it again, I haven't seen it in a long time. Such a sad movie, it never fails to make me cry.

[erikaamato]

re: Boys Don't Cry#4

Posted: 7/17/06 at 11:09am

siamese dream: Well, with your screen name, that doesn't really surprise me...

[suddenlyseymour]

re: Boys Don't Cry#5

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:42pm

I love this movie. As sad as it is, I could watch it over and over again. Hilary gave a flawless performance and absolutely deserved that oscar

and Munk - I totally agree with you about Peter Sarsgaard. When is he going to start getting some recognition??

[broadway86]

re: Boys Don't Cry#6

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:01pm

Great movie, and I think Swank deserved it.

Why Sarsgaard wasn't nominated for Shattered Glass is beyond me. I thought he was better than all of the 2003 nominees.

[blueroses]

re: Boys Don't Cry#7

Posted: 7/17/06 at 6:23pm

She was amazing (so was Chloe). But it's one of those movies that distubed me so much I could never bear to see it again. I've only seen Schindler's List once, too.

broadway86, I loved Shattered Glass! I agree that Sarsgaard is excellent. Loved him even more in Garden State.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Boys Don't Cry#8

Posted: 7/17/06 at 6:32pm

Peter Sarsgaard is one of those actors that no matter what role he's playing, whatever film, he turns in a fantastic performance. Other actors like this that come to mind are Laura Linney and Mary-Louise Parker.

An independent film written and directed by Craig Lucas (Tony-nominated book writer of The Light in the Piazza) came out last year called The Dying Gaul. Sarsgaard starred and turned in an amazing performance. Totally deserved a Supporting Actor nomination. Rent it. It's a great film. Kelli O'Hara has a cute cameo in the film, as she was working on Piazza with Lucas at the time they filmed.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

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Updated On: 7/17/06 at 06:32 PM

[blueroses]

re: Boys Don't Cry#9

Posted: 7/17/06 at 6:35pm

I've been meaning to rent that, too, Foster. Not only is Sarsgaard in it--Campbell Scott and Patricia Clarkson are, too.

[DayDreamer]

re: Boys Don't Cry#10

Posted: 7/17/06 at 8:51pm

I have yet to see it. I don't think I could sit through it.

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[AC126748]

re: Boys Don't Cry#11

Posted: 7/18/06 at 8:42am

Boys Don't Cry is an incredibly hard movie to watch, but I find myself going back to it quite often. Hilary Swank's performance achieves a kind of truthfulness that is so rarely seen on film these days. She and Chloe Sevigny had beautiful chemistry, and Sevigny was heartbreaking in the end. The final scene is still tear-inducing, even seven years later.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Garland Grrrl]

re: Boys Don't Cry#12

Posted: 7/18/06 at 9:27am

This is a stunning, excruciating film. I've been able to re-watch portions but I'm emotionally drained for the rest of the day if I do.

Mind is Mantra.

[Jyn326]

re: Boys Don't Cry#13

Posted: 7/18/06 at 10:24am

I just watched it for the first time yesterday.

I agree that Hilary deserved her oscar and Peter Sarsgaard definately deserves more credit.

The ending... just... wow... I was speechless