The Gay Cowboy Movie

Last night I went with friends to see "Brokeback Mountain." We all went to see it for the same reason - we're intelligent, open-mind people looking into a movie that is causing a lot of fuss among the straight male population.

This is what I have to say about the movie: It was a good movie, not a great one. It was not shocking (unless you live in a cave), it didn't creep me out, it was beautifully shot (as all Ang Lee films are), and very very quiet. It was, in fact, a non-event. I'd never see it again because it was only a good film.

I belong to a large population of people who have an opinion about the film. Some may say it's immoral, sacrilegious, ground-breaking or digusting. But I am the first person I know to have seen the movie ergo I belong to an extremely small population of middle Americans who have actually seen the movie and posess an opinion about it.

This, truly, is nothing to get in arms about. Why are we all in an absolute rage and controversy over a love story and not over a violent horror film like "Underworld"? They had police at the theater because of the Goth crowd the Underworld movie draws.

I'm not stating an opinion about homosexuality and its morality or social place in our society. I'm just saying, there's a lot of things in this world to worry about than gay cowboys. I found more to worry about in "Memoirs of a Geisha." This movie, truly, is nothing.