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I remember when I was younger and my kindergarten teacher would ask me, 'What do you want to be when you're older?' To her question I would quickly respond 'cowboy!', and then skip around enthusiastically pretending to be riding a horse- well, those days are over. I no longer want to be a cowboy. Ang Lee's critically acclaimed film, Brokeback Mountain has been in the spotlight for quite some time, so I felt that maybe I should just go see what all the talk is about. I'll keep my review short for this one- this movie is gay. Before my eyes, cowboys- the rugged independent figures of American folklore and childhood heroes- were doing some other kind of branding, not on the cattle. For those who are thinkning that I am just some kind of bigot who hates gay people and therefore, cannot truly understand this film- you are wrong. I think that the real reason this film has received so much attention is because it is gay- not because it is a particularily good movie. It's equally as wrong to discriminate as it is to give special treatment to something on th basis that it is different. If I had to do it all over again, I'd pocket my ticket money and watch a real cowboy drama where the character's aren' such 'Florence Nightingales .
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