Gilda

Brokeback Mountain isn't political. It deals with non-mainstream sexuality, which is sometimes made into a political issue, but that doesn't mean that anything having to do with homosexuality is necessarily political.

I'm a lesbian, I really have no interest in man-on-man sex. It's fortunate, then, that that's not what this movie is about. The sex isn't gratuitous or even very graphic, and constitutes maybe two minutes of a two hour film.

It's about being who you are in the face of adversity, about finding something in yourself that you didn't know was there.

I gotta disagree. I am an afficianado of chick flicks. I have Where the Heart Is on dvd and I've seen it a half dozen times. This isn't a chick flick. Nowhere near the formula.

I think you mean morals here, and I don't really disagree with you. I think movies can help you to empathize with people you'd never otherwise have the opportunity with which to interact, and thus can help you to vicariously develop the ability to empathize with others, but it probably does require a receptive mind to have that effect.

You know, I really couldn't agree more with the sentiment, though your wording could use some work. Sure, it's obvious that you're expressing an opinion based on the cocept of what is or isn't entertaining being entirely subjective, but it can be a bit off-putting to present your opinion as a statement of fact. Try softening it with an "I" statement and you're less likely to provoke offense.

Any sex involving a man in any way is something I don't want to be a part of. A loving relationship based on trust, however, is. Brokeback Mountain--and I'm absolutley serious here--has more in common with Romeo and Juliet than it does with gay porn.

And you know what? That's cool. That it isn't to your taste is a good reason for not seeing a movie. I like Chow Yun Fat gun fu movies with the good guys and bad guys firing thousands of rounds at each other and racking up a body count in the hundreds. My wife thinks they're stupid beyond belief. She doesn't, however, go out her way to criticize movies she hasn't seen, she just doesn't see them.

However, I would point out that one can be entertained and challenged at the same time. It's possible to like both The Iron Ladies (the true story of a transvestite volleyball team that won the 1996 Thai national championships; an unambitious formula sports movie) and something more thoughtful like Brokeback Mountain.

You don't want to see it? That's cool. But criticizing it without having seen it is arguing from a position of ignorance.

Gilda

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