Posted on 01/17/2006 6:09:13 AM PST by thehumanlynx
I was responding to Linda_22003's 'point' about my quoting a line from "Chinatown". Remember ? Jack Nicholson, John Huston, Faye Dunaway ? Great movie.
I haven't seen the film, but obviously it faults society for repressing these men's urges; whereas a social conservative would blame the men, for giving into them. I'm puzzled though by all the condemnation the characters in this film get concerning the treatment of their wives, when Walk the Line seems to get a free pass from people for depicting similar adulterous behavior. I have seen Walk the Line, and I enjoyed the movie, but I was troubled by how the film handled Cash's marriage to his first wife. Obviously Cash and June Carter were a great pair, and had a wonderful, moral marriage; but Cash treated his first wife like garbage. Yet the film makes the wife unsympathetic by taking pains to show how she doesn't appreciate or understand his "art." Surely, however, that doesn't justify the drug use and promiscuous extramarital sex the film shows Cash engaging in. And he just walked away from the marriage, continuing to pursue the one woman he really wanted, June carter, until he got her. I don't know about the message there. Shouldn't he have tried to repair the marriage he had made?
As for the men in Brokeback, I think it's wrong for men with gay urges to marry women, even if that is what society tells them to do. Even if a homosexually-inclined man resists homosexual temptations, I don't see how he can satisfy his wife emotionally in such circumstances. Of course, men like that frequently want to hide the truth from themselves, and a big part of that is marrying and trying to appear straight. But it's wrong for a man to drag a woman into that sort of arrangement, unless she understands it from the outset (some women do nowadays).
See, here's the thing though. Obviously a lot more people see homosexuality between two consenting adults as no big thing anymore. Almost everybody, one hopes, even liberals, finds incest and and rape and child abuse--all things portrayed in Chinatown--horrifying. Chinatown was one of the most depressing films I ever saw. I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, but it sounds like just another film about repressed gay love, though I suppose with better acting and production values. That doesn't excite me, but it doesn't offend me either. I've known quite a few gay people over the years, and they are about like other people in most cases, no better, no worse. But obviously people who see homosexuality as a terrible sin are going to see things differently.
Telling Freepers to ignore and not discuss Hollywood socialist propaganda is ridiculous.
So why not take your own advice and STFU.
Your hypocrisy is as shameless as a Lib Rat.
Conservative?
Not a chance.
You certainly took your time being indignant toward me. :) Not going to movies that don't interest you is a liberal position? I thought it was just common sense.
Better late than never.
Being aware of a major Liberal propaganda effort via Hollywood including bogus awards has nothing to do whether you yourself go to movies.
But you already know that - you, like the Left, just don't want others to realize it.
Apparently, "conservative" films don't do much better at the boxoffice. "United 93," "World Trade Center," "One Night With King," "Facing the Giants" and "The End of the Spear" all earned less money (in most cases, far less money) at the box office than "Brokeback Mountain."
So, apart from "Passion of the Christ," where's the evidence that conservatives will turn out in droves for movies that reflect their values?
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