tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post113590484405930615..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: Brokeback Mountain ReconsideredTerry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-1136847417963677082006-01-09T14:56:00.000-08:002006-01-09T14:56:00.000-08:00Luke,I agree with much of what you say. It seems ...Luke,<BR/>I agree with much of what you say. It seems we can't discuss the issue these days without being either labeled homophobic on the one hand, or being sucked in to the entire gay rights agenda on the other. Propagandizing runs ramput. Civil discourse is hard to find.<BR/><BR/>I might note, however, that homosexual behavior is just one of a broad list of activities that mankind engages in that doesn't exactly fall into "God's plan." Shoot, we've all been screwing that up since the get-go. And as for the "sinful life" bit, lust knows no sexual preference.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Now as for messing up one of your favorite movie genres, well, what exactly was it with John Wayne and all those pink shirts? ")Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-1136259288691289172006-01-02T19:34:00.000-08:002006-01-02T19:34:00.000-08:00gabriel, I agree. The hype surrounding the film i...gabriel, I agree. The hype surrounding the film is not hard to read. But not having seen the movie, I can't speak to its real message. Yet I have no doubt how it will be portrayed and perceived in our popular culture. <BR/><BR/>s-p, yep, I know all about that flailing and flopping :)Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-1136256073896837782006-01-02T18:41:00.000-08:002006-01-02T18:41:00.000-08:00I haven't seen the movie either but I told someone...I haven't seen the movie either but I told someone I bet it is a "gay" version of Bridges of Madison County.<BR/>At that level it is indeed merely about our fallen humanity and how desperately we flail and flop with just about anything and anyone who makes us feel "alive" and desired. I'm working on an article on homosexuality for an Orthodox publication right now...this is a timely topic for me.Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-1136226977390277182006-01-02T10:36:00.000-08:002006-01-02T10:36:00.000-08:00I sympathize with the alternative reading of Broke...I sympathize with the alternative reading of <I>Brokeback Mountain</I>, but ultimately that is not how the movie is going to be either understood or remembered. The poster tagline, "Love is a force of nature" is pregnant with pro-homosexualist meaning. <BR/><BR/>There is plenty of modern cinema, music, and fiction that can be approached from the perspective of demonstrating the flaws of the human condition, but rarely that is the explicit message the works are trying to convey. (Though it is a testament to our fallen nature that such works are incapable of transcending such interpretations.) I'm a big proponent of Ingmar Bergman's movies for the simple fact they are artisitically beautiful and intellectual sound portrayals of the atheist-existentialist outlook in modernity; however, the regrettable message I draw from them is understandably opposed to the more laudable or, at least, self-identifying appraisal many give them.G Sanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797757461858023882noreply@blogger.com