Big Boys Don’t Cry
Movie • 2020
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Based on true events, Paul (Michael Socha) is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds. As Paul struggles to shake off his past and build a relationship with Anthea (Zoë Tapper), his fragile mental state and bitter memories lead to a confrontation with those responsible for his shattered childhood and the death of his friend.
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The boys at the care home are horrifically sexually, physically and emotionally abused. They are raped, beaten, urinated on, verbally degraded, and one has a cigarette put out on his chest. It’s not as graphic as it could be, but it’s still very upsetting
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Six of the eight boys Jacko lived with killed themselves. This is never shown or elaborated on
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A boy is seen examining his genitals in the bathroom after being abused. Another boy enters the bathroom, asks if he is okay and then looks horrified when he sees him (which the audience doesn’t)
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Kind of? It shows the real Jacko and how his life is going great, but obviously he is still traumatised and the other boys are still dead
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Both consensual and non-consensual
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A cigarette is put out on Jacko’s chest in a flashback
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Jacko calls Anthea’s friend “fat” and “chubby”
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Shaving and Jacko plays with a knife and threatens a staff member with it in a flashback
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There’s a subplot about some organised crime stuff that Jacko is caught up in. He almost shoots one of the perpetrators at the end but decides not to
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That’s the main plot of the film. Jacko has PTSD from growing up in an abusive childrens home
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That’s literally the title of the film
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There are drunk women near the start, and in flashbacks the abusive staff often seem to be drunk
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Swearing, and there’s also a scene that is repeated of a man verbally degrading a boy
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Six of the eight boys Jacko lived with killed themselves including his best friend, but this is never shown and no details are given
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The boys at the care home are raped. It’s not shown graphically of course, but a boy is seen having his undershirt removed by a staff member, a boy is heard pleading for it to stop, and a boy is seen in the bathroom examining himself after being abused. There’s also a scene of one boy being ordered to urinate on another, and when he refuses a staff member puts a cigarette out on his chest and urinates on him. The body language of the children and the things they say make it clear that this abuse is a regular thing
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