Brokeback Mountain

On Saturday we decided to go see Brokeback Mountain and see what all of the talk was about. We were both surprised to see that it was showing in Colorado Springs, although our theater had a tiny fraction of the number of people we saw pour into "The Pink Panther" across the hall from us at the cinema.

This film has a lot of positive and negative hype for its homosexual content and I've seen reviews on both sides. Personally, I thought it was a good movie and I think people who judge the movie before seeing it or refuse to see it on the pretense that the main characters are homosexual only represent the tensions in the movie and intensify the experience of watching the movie for moviegoers.

Maybe that sounds strange, but when you go to a movie that so many refuse to see because of homosexuality, it is easier to understand the dilemmas of the characters and the social context of their relationship.

Experiencing intolerance outside the theater makes it much more real inside the theater.

If any of you've seen it, I'd like to hear what you think.