In typical fashion today Hollywood resolved to celebrate time honored traditions such as homosexuality, liberal ideology and the travails of being a transvestite over the more fringe story of redemption told in "Walk the Line", a story chronicling the life of singer Johnny Cash. That's right; it was not even nominated for Best Picture. I was especially taken by the director of Bareback Mountain's statements where he exclaimed, "I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up," Lee said. "More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong." , which again wrongly claim that homosexuality is not an issue of right and wrong and further distort and already distorted issue by celebrating it. It is very hard to make an argument that this is a love story when almost immediately the two main characters are engaged in graphic homosexual relations. The word love somehow did not come easily to mind. Were I to put it in the context of a Heterosexual scene, the words animal lust would seem more appropriate and fit much better. This movie degrades the concepts of marriage, love and monogamy in ways that make my stomach turn and for no other reason than to advance an agenda that Lee now claims is representative of much of our population. Yeeaaahhh Riiiigghhhttt!
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