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Quand Brandon, âgé de vingt ans, arrive dans une petite ville du Nebraska en 1993, son charme et ses allures de garçon lui permettent de se faire rapidement des amis et de fréquenter une jolie jeune fille. Mais seulement trois semaines plus tard, Brandon est brutalement violée et tabassée par deux de ses amis devenus furieux en découvrant qu'il est une femme. Une semaine après, les deux mêmes l'assassinent ainsi qu'une jeune mère et un autre homme auprès desquels il avait trouvé refuge. Ce documentaire, sur l'homophobie raconte, à travers les dernières seamines de la vie de Brandon, sa lutte pour son identité.
"The Brandon Teena Story" is a documentary about hatred and homophobia in the heartland of America. The film focuses on the last few weeks of Brandon Teena's life in a small town in Nebraska. When 20 year old Brandon arrived in rural Fall City, Nebraska in late 1993, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends and a pretty young girlfriend. On Christmas Eve Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of his friends who became enraged when they found out that Brandon was in fact a woman passing as a guy. A week later, on New Year's Eve, the same men murdered Brandon along with two of his friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip Devine. All were shot twice at a close range and Brandon was stabbed several times as well. The far-reaching effects of ingrained homophobia and misguided loyalty under a veneer of revealing the truth, and how this led to Brandon's destruction are unravelled in this film.
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