If you see a movie this holiday season, go see Brokeback Mountain.
Unlike many other Christmas movies, it rests solely on its storytelling, the actors and the craft of the director.
Have you had a love, but because for whatever reason life pulled the two of you apart... as if nature itself thought the two of you were not meant to be?
Then as the years pass, you see yourself and your beloved get older, and despite the time passing those loving feelings remain.
This is part of the complicated struggle of the two main characters in the movie. Is feeling this way part of being gay? Or is it part of being an adult?
I think some gay people will be disinclined to see it because it is a "western." It sure contains different locales from Queer as Folk, but honestly it is also a more honest and accurate portrayal of emotions in our relationships.
I admire the film because it is so poignent, containing many elements that are so much more difficult to successfully create.... and which we find so rarely in movies today.
Steve
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