A Subtle Dagger
I just watched Brokeback Mountain with my mom. She didn't like it very much. And, honestly, that's perfectly fine with me. What hurt was when she she said, "I don't know how it won any awards." For some reason unbeknownst to myself, that hit me real hard. I guess it just hurt that she didn't understand something that i'm incredibly attached to. The film is really important to me, and i feel that it's very important to the modern world. I guess i also naively thought that it would change her perspective on homosexuality. I thought she might be able to see how much two people, who happen to be the same sex, can truly love each other. This is why i didn't want her to watch it. I just knew that she was going to watch it, and she was going to see the gay men, the sex, the profanity, the adultery, and clump them all into a bad film. She doesn't understand how epic this movie is. And it hurts me.
It was weird, too, because for the first half of the movie i could sort of see it through my mother's eyes. I was so nervous, so i watched it like i thought she'd be watching it. And i started seeing all these flaws. I started seeing things that I understood, by i knew she would just look passed as if they weren't important. It was so torturous. I watched it and I knew that she wouldn't understand how important the story can be to some people. I know she understands the power of love, but it's hard for her to apply it to a relationship involving two men. While watching it with my mother, i was able to see how some people could view the movie as terrible and unworthy of its received awards. I saw how they could easily misinterpret some things, and how they could make Jack and Ennis the bad villains. It was so tragic to see those things, because they were things that i don't agree with. When I see the movie, i don't see the "bad things" because i'm too busy thinking about how these men are forced away from each other because of society. I talk about this stuff in the "All is Full of Love" entry, i know, but i needed to write about this. I really wish my mom understood the movie more. And i wish it would've changed her opinion about the LGBT community. Because, for some reason, it's very important to me that tolerance is spread.
I'm going to watch some gay anime now. Cheer.
It was weird, too, because for the first half of the movie i could sort of see it through my mother's eyes. I was so nervous, so i watched it like i thought she'd be watching it. And i started seeing all these flaws. I started seeing things that I understood, by i knew she would just look passed as if they weren't important. It was so torturous. I watched it and I knew that she wouldn't understand how important the story can be to some people. I know she understands the power of love, but it's hard for her to apply it to a relationship involving two men. While watching it with my mother, i was able to see how some people could view the movie as terrible and unworthy of its received awards. I saw how they could easily misinterpret some things, and how they could make Jack and Ennis the bad villains. It was so tragic to see those things, because they were things that i don't agree with. When I see the movie, i don't see the "bad things" because i'm too busy thinking about how these men are forced away from each other because of society. I talk about this stuff in the "All is Full of Love" entry, i know, but i needed to write about this. I really wish my mom understood the movie more. And i wish it would've changed her opinion about the LGBT community. Because, for some reason, it's very important to me that tolerance is spread.
I'm going to watch some gay anime now. Cheer.