Eat It Up Conservative Middle America and Choke on It!

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2006)

Let me just start out by saying this was not one of the best movies I have ever seen. It wasn't life changing or so moving for me that I wept by the movie's end. At the same time, I do think Heath Ledger's acting performance is worth high praise as well as Ang Lee's direction. I love this movie for sticking it to the Conservative and Religious Right in this country because they asked for it. That's why I tell everyone I know to see this film. The political landscape swings to the right and something in our culture such as this movie becomes a smashing mainstream success! Otherwise it would have been just a fairly good movie seen mostly by a gay audience. Instead the movie has taken the red states by storm and has everybody talking. Thank you Carl Rove! Thank you George W. and the rest of your camp! The result of the 2004 election helped pave the way for this kind of homo mania, and there is a lot more to come! Would it have been like this if certain right wing politics hadn't played their dirty hand to use gay rights as a wedge issue to get Bush re-elected in 2004? Of course not! If you are going to oppress a minority such as gays and lesbians as second class citizens denying them all of the same rights as everyone else, expect much more of this. It's a nice big man cream pie in the face of the Ann Coulters out there and their extreme right agenda! I could be wrong, but I believe this movie wasn't made for political reasons. However timing is everything. It just happened to come out no pun intended at a time when it had unprecedented impact. This movie was not made to titillate. It just happens to be a story based on the fact two ordinary men CAN love each other more than just "fishin buddies" but a lot of small minds don't want them to. For that reason, this movie has more than artistic merit and earned a place in American film-making history.