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December 8th, 2006 Brokeback Mountain – Finally… So I finally watched Brokeback Mountain last night. Yes, it was as painful to watch as I thought it would be. Yes, I was bawling my eyes out at the end. I hear they’re releasing a collector’s edition sometime next month. I reckon I’ll probably go buy it. For when I want to make myself miserable I guess. Or explain to myself why I’m still trying so hard to find my soul mate. 2 Responses to “Brokeback Mountain – Finally…”
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December 9th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I wonder if watching Brokeback 40 years down the line will be something like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner today… a reminder of how different things are.
Of course, Guess Who was set in the 60s and the core of Brokeback was the 70s, so BB shows both how far things have come, and yet still have to go.
December 10th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Hopefully. I’m almost embarrassed to admit I’ve never actually sat down and watched Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner from one end to the other, but I remember the stir it caused when it was released. And come to think of it, there were a lot of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner jokes at the time too. The phrase came to mean you had a lover your parents probably wouldn’t like. I’m sure I saw at least one cartoon gag at the time where the punchline was a guy bringing home another guy.
As I recall, the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn characters in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner were well educated well to do folks supposedly who felt themselves progressive on the race issue at the time, and found their attitudes challenged by their daughter bringing home a black boyfriend. Which made the story very pointed. It’s not just a matter of intellectualizing race away. And yeah, you see that same thing when it comes to sexual orientation and gender. Suddenly it’s their son or their daughter and then all the reactions they thought they’d sensibly dealt with and put to rest come bubbling back up and out of them.
A gay version of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner might seem unnecessary in this day and age, but it isn’t. All the coming out to family stories I’ve seen so far have been about challenging the attitudes of fundamentalists and conservatives. But that hostility toward the “other” runs deeper then religion and politics.