BrokeBack Mountain.
Is it a realistic story or implausible fiction?
Is there something about two cowboys in quiet mountain solitude that leads to passion as well as a persistent intense yearning for more of the pleasures so forbidden by society.
Does any man who flips his wife like a BignTasty fantasize about Jack Twist?
It's just a movie.
It's also a good example of Hollywood taking advantage of what's going on in the world.
AHem, Like "Flight 93"
Which is based upon complete fiction,
and is PROPOGANDA.
I must admit I loved the movie, even though I had decided I wasn't going to like it.
It does touch upon some less solid souls, like the schoolmaster at one of the actresses' alma mater, who said that they did not want to be connected with the movie (duh...how would they have been unless they made that comment..).
Gay behaviour between cowboys? I think it's as much a reality in that community as any other.
Otherwise it's a really tragic story and also a work of fiction.
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eh, it's realistic enough. Why can't a couple a good ol' boys from cow country be secret gay lovers?
I thought it was a pretty good movie. I had no idea what it was about when I first sat down to watch it. Then came that one scene where they out of nowhere start going at it in the tent..... I was really disturbed at first. but probably because I wasn't expecting it at all.
BrokeBack Mountain.
Is it a realistic story or implausible fiction?
Is there something about two cowboys in quiet mountain solitude that leads to passion as well as a persistent intense yearning for more of the pleasures so forbidden by society.
Does any man who flips his wife like a BignTasty fantasize about Jack Twist?
Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other, what did you think those saddles and boots was about? There's many a cowboy who don't understand the way that he feels towards his brother, inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.
Why don't you tell us what you think?
Here's what Willie thinks:
Interesting.
I think the most important aspect of the film was the extremely violent end that Jack met. We live in a culture that tells itself it is tolerant and then threatens violence to those that threaten its comfort. Why would anyone attack a homosexual? It seems a fresh wave of anti homo sentiment passed over this country with the protection of marriage crowd. Homosexuals are not a threat to anyone or anything. They have always been around and always will be. The question is how many of us will try to suppress them with violent rhetoric and action.
You're personifying an abstract concept. "Culture" doesn't tell itself anything. It is a concept in your own mind, so it sounds like you are troubled by issues around "you," and you are trying give them strength by broadening them into this abstract and broader concept called culture.
Regardless of where it exists, the why of it all is simple. Fear, ignorance, and hatred (in that order, too).
I have gay friends, and do not consider myself a homophobe, but frank depictions of man-sex make me pretty uncomfortable. The same is not nessecarily true of two girls (but I don't get the charge out of it that some do.)
Of course, other people's rights are not contingent upon my comfort. But it still makes me feel a bit guilty.
TFS
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I didnt want to watch the movie to begin with. But who cares about them being gay, its a love story. A hella good one to say too. Other love storys that hollywood produces cant even compare next to that movie. it trancends sexual orientation, its about love, which really doesnt know boundries.
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