I thought that although the movie was somewhat amateur, the vein of Brandon's story was tapped into. I really liked the fact that the filmmakers went out and found and interviewed people who actually knew Brandon and that we as the audience were able to learn more about him and his life. I also can appreciate that the movie at least gave mention to Phil DeVine and Lisa Lambert. "Boys Don't Cry" never even mentioned Phil and that movie also made it seem like Lana Tisdel was the one and only true love in Brandon's life. This movie minimizes her role in Brandon't life and eventual death. At least this film didn't just use the really "interresting" aspects of his life, but it used the real aspects of Brandon's life. There was one main thing that did bother me in this movie though. The use of long, drawn out music that seemed to have very little to do with the film itself. I think that if that had been cut back a bit, I personally would have enjoyed the movie far more. This was definitely worth watching if you are curious about the life and death of Brandon Teena.

i am somewhat like Brandon. i know a little how he felt. and it wasn't right that he left this world the way he did, left it without having a family of his own, having someone to be there with him for the rest of his life, or living as long as he should have. but this i will say tom and john, you two are the most horrible people, taking a innocent life for what, living the way that made him feel good, that gave him happiness, i think you killed him because you were jealous,jealous that he was happy and was in love. and to those who loved Brandon, and were close to him i am sorry, and i think that because Brandon was taken from us, it gave us more, it gave each of us a little piece of him to carry on through our lives, to keep him living through us. to keep him as not a past memory, but a moving remembrance of a brave young man a fighter, and a man we will all remember. BRANDON TEENA(TEENA BRANDON)(1972-1993) WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU!!!

I thought the movie was great. I wished that I could have met Brandon. I felt sorry for him and what he went through. THEM (so called men) took a life and for what?? Because of how someone lived his life. BRANDON didn't hurt anyone not by a long shot. He was a kid hanging out and having fun with his friends.People are always talking about peace and love. To me people don't care about anything, they care about themselves and they don't care who they hurt. But my question to them is.... WHY? What do you get out of it? We all live in the same world. We are all going to die sooner or later. Why cut there life short. And over something that never concerned them in the first place. Brandon's life was taken from him because of someone's stupidity. I don't feel sorry for Tom nor John. I feel sorry for Brandon's mother and family. Because they lost someone they loved for no reason.

This could have been, should have been a very good film, but the filmmakers decided to focus on not on Teena Brandon/Brandon Tenna--a woman who passed herself off as a man, even to some of his girlfriends--but instead the rape and murder which occured in his last week of life. While the rape and murder were horrible, the filmmakers never got into the killer's heads enough to make that aspect of the story interesting or informative (film message: some people are bigots and do horrible things). The fascinating questions, such as how could a woman be sexually involved with another woman and not know it, were touched on, but not nearly enough.I wish the filmmakers had looked into the relationship aspect of this story more. How have Brandon's ex-girlfriend's been affected by knowing that they were involved with a woman? Why did Brandon hang out with the people who killed him?But then again, the film seemed decidedly amatuerish in most aspects, with little insight in how to use the camera to tell the story. I can't figure out what about the material demanded a film. A book would have allowed a deeper exploration of the interesting material without sacrificing any of the (nonexistant) visual appeal.