Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other

After seeing this film twice (and reading the short story), I am struck by how much this film resonates and lingers.

It's not just that the actors are hot, or that Gay America is starved for films like this, there's just something about the story.... something about love unrequited and denied that still smolders for decades... it's so sad, yet such a statement of strength.

Can a sign of hope be derived from the fact on the day after the U.S. Senate confirmed Sam Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, "Brokeback Mountain" topped the list of Oscar nominations?

It's like this country has a split personality. We elect and empower a government that would appoint a man like Sam Alito to our highest court. A man who will likely cast deciding votes to overturn Roe v. Wade, to turn back privacy rights, civil rights, consumer rights, workers rights. Yet, we produce and embrace "Brokeback Mountain".

Well that shows the schism in our culture I guess.

Other thoughts on the film:
* I find myself sometimes slipping in conversation and referring to it as "Bareback Mountain".
* That Pansy Division song (titled in this blog piece) keeps gettting stuck in my head now.
* After seeing the film the second time, I spent many days speaking like Ennis del Mar to deliberately drive my partner Mike crazy (and it reminded me of this hot cowboy guy I went to high school with about 100 years ago -- so that was like a double bonus).
* Rufus Wainwright's song "the Maker's Make" was robbed and should have got an Oscar nomination for best song!!!
* Heath was definitely the top.

Seriously. Brilliant film. I plan to see it again... and to try not to cry so much as the credits are rolling at the end.