This is camping in the sixties?

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2011)

I know plausibility doesn't play a big part when people review these kind of pictures, but hear me out here. The film is set in 1963 to start, not 1863. These guys are given a half-assed teepee and a pup tent to sleep in in the Wyoming rockies, along with what looks like wool blankets. Was Randy Quaid's character assuming that they were gay? They couldn't spring for a couple of sleeping bags down at Sears?
So the story setup seems to be that Gyllenhaal's character is a major fruit to begin with, and Ledger's is so bottled up that he falls into it, and manages to keep it closeted, perhaps even transitioning out by his forties. The details of how the two characters got into the relationship seem to hinge on a curious bit of contrivance.