Remind me not to watch another movie based on a true story. Well, not within a month at least. Not that I regret watching the movie, I'm just made very sad by it. I cannot describe the dreading feeling I get when I'm watching/reading something that I know does not have a happy ending. Sad. So sad.

Boys Don't Cry
Well yeah, it won an Academy Award in 1999. And everyone knows what happens to Brandon Teena, who gets raped and murdered. Still...the movie is about how that came about. How he lived, how he died. It's all here on Wikipedia. Hilary Swank is amazing. As she was in Million Dollar Baby. Another movie where you have to savour the blissful moments while you can, and wring your hands as you experience the harsh realities towards the end. These are movies you watch, not to have fun watching them, but to try and understand them; the lives these people had. We will never know what it was like to be 21-year-old Brandon Teena in 1993, living in  Falls City, Nebraska, but we can try.

• Boys Don't Cry - Trailer

It's devastating how the intolerance of some towards others is like a disease infecting this world. If I had a machine which could brain wash people into being accepting, I would be tempted to use it. But I wouldn't, because acceptance and the evolution of societal attitudes has to come gradually. I believe people are entitled to their opinions, and it is not right to say everyone else is wrong and I am right. However one thing I can never understand is people imposing their opinions on others. As long as whoever we are and what we stand for does not impact others, does it really matter? Should other people's lives be interfered with?