When you are eating popcorn from your friends crotch, you are mistaken to be gay and especially while watching Brokeback Mountain. I had plenty of eyes staring at me during the movie. I even heard two middle aged women, who were quite desperate, saying "This should be interesting". Brokeback is about two gay cowboys in the '60s in the Americas. Ang Lee the Crouching Tiger fame, has done a good job, cos it is difficult convincing to men to kiss and do more just for the Oscars. He deserved the Oscar he won since it is always difficult carrying a story like that, when almost every audience frown at a thought of gay men. But Ang Lee keeps the audience comfortable by using breathtaking shots of the mountains. But apart from the jokes I think it was a well made movie, it did save the face of the actors. Only the audience have to be careful, since I was shit-scared going to the loo even after drinking a litre of pepsi.
Brokeback did not win the oscars for the best movie, since Crash just gate-crashed the awards with a brilliant story. It was a brilliant movie that revolves around people in the LA. It shows the horrible truth of the discrimination and the hatred of people in the modern America. It shows in black and white how much the Americans are frightened about their neighbourhood. Maybe America was a paradise, the new world and everything. But this is what a human civilization can culminate to, an irony in development. Crash made everyone in the cinema hall feel pity for them.
You feel sorry for the cop whose mother thinks that he killed his brother. He had no time for the family, and he did not have any regard for human feelings. You see a statesman worried more about his post and just wants to use a black man for winning votes. You see two car thieves redeem themselves. You see a young cop in fear kill a man, who meant no harm. You see a cop save a woman from an accident, who he had harassed a night before. You see a child who saves his father from a gun shot. You see a foreigner wanting to kill a man because he had fixed his door. No matter how different people are, because of the colour, creed, nationality or religion they are united in fear, because everyone thinks that their savior is the .91mm that they carry.
Well the oscars this year showed the real world. Brokeback Mountain made people think about the different human feeling. It ridiculed the society for its assumptions of the human relations. It ridiculed the western society for believing that rationality is a better way to build a society than culture. Crash showed what would a civilization come become if do not trust the fellow human being. After all we all are human beings.
Take Care.
