offended by nomination

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2006)

being from Holland i completely have to agree with BjornEdstrom. Having just seen the movie I don't really get what all the Buzz was about. In the theater there were some iel!! and grose!! but the general public (most of them gay men or just women) went to see a love story which happened to be about two very repressed gay men. Brokeback Mountain is a rare movie, a mainstream movie about queers...oooeeeh..what a eye opener. I feel offended that the academy nominated the picture for best film. It's like positive discrimination all over again. I'm not saying that the movie was bad, because most of the acting in the film is pretty darn good. Maybe for middle America this movie will give the chance to change the general opinion about gays, but here in Europe the movie is a step back. gay men generally die or end up in trailer parks or end up having a very scary decease, this movie ain't different. First of all the gay men are repressed and don't come out of the closet and the only love-scene in the movie looks like a rape. Not liking the characters would be considered homophobic and I think this is part of the reason why the academy nominated the movie.
this movie ain't a 8/10 but at the highest a 7/10 and people giving this movie a 10 ain't helping the gay community so stop being so darn PC..the movie confirms the repressed state the community is in..
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