'Brokeback Mountain' explores the complexity of love with disarming freshness

Rating: 9/10 (6 February 2006)

I heard '"Brokeback Mountain" is A gay western' from a paranoid homophobic man who was acting like the wrath of God, convinced that anyone who went to see 'Brokeback Mountain' is gay. More ferociously he claimed to believe if one weren't gay when one went in, you would be when you...exit the theater. I won the bet that he was a card carrying Republican, not that there is anything wrong with that...just my casual an keen observation of a poker face. (no pun intended) I remember when I heard the term, 'a gay western', I thought 'Oh Great, just what the world needs!" as I started to imagine a Tim Curry-esqe 'Rocky Horror Picture Show-like' version of "Rio Bravo", "Red River", "The War Wagon", "Big Jake", and "The Train Robbers". The homosexual innuendos in these are unintentional, I'm sure! I can almost see it vividly, there they are tough guys one an all, talking like over the top bad actors acting like a sissy boy with not one good thing to say about a woman! It's peculiar how they give their horses high grades and better treatment! There will be no need to ever wonder what exactly those cowboys did to pull themselves through a cold and lonely night being as there were no women around for miles. Only men, alone, cold and scared are the sheep! Normally, when there was a beautiful woman, the Cowboy didn't know what to do with her, 'no damn way!' But, when he's got his horse, his dog and a penis extension in his hand and he knows exactly what to do! "Brokeback Mountain" is NOT about all that! This is a beautiful and daring film about the complexities in the dichotomy of love in the human being. This film is a superb showcase of provocative freshness from a fine director such is Ang Lee, and excellent cinematographer like Rodrigo Prieto and intense actors, all down with their chops, presenting the portrayal of the people in relationships of two men! Suffice to say, this film brings out the ugliest homophobia in men, (defining 'Homophobia' as fear-based core beliefs of men who are so insecure with their own sexuality, they 'act out', some resort to verbal abuse, some violence and some even murder homosexuals.) The ultra-insecure I have casually noticed hide behind the 'God' character in a religious based book, that quite a few have a strange, weird and wacky interpretations of! {I'm still trying to get over how the dinosaur skeletons in the Smithsonian in DC are delusions or figments of my imagination merely because they got no mention in their bible. However, this supports the theory of long-term mental effects of inbreeding since Adam and Eve, explaining a hell of a lot of human behavior!} It's too damn bad God has a problem with a superb showcase of Something different for a change! I feel it is a gosh-darn shame that God can't accept in His tiny little mind that the characters, too, were made in the image and likeness of Himself. That said, since God has a problem with what finally does what a voice of ART is supposed to do & gets people talking, then God obviously doesn't have a damn clue! So, God needs to sit on his hands in the corner to keep his bile filled fingers from stroking his keyboard or he'll end up screwing himself out of seeing a masterpiece of modern film-making!
If there is anything for the 'American God' to get riled up about, it ought to be how Canada doubled for Wyoming, not that there is anything wrong with Canada. It's All-American 'out sourcing' to be proud of!