Thank you, John, for a most articulate wording of a most unpopular viewpoint among the PC populace. Despite my knowledge of Hollywood being based solely on what I see on television, I have come to the same conclusion about this movie. It has the most cleverly-disguised shock factor I've ever seen, a movie created with the sole purpose of pandering to the activists who have a large majority control over the Academy, the ultimate goal being to use the award stage and the ad nauseum media replays of that winning moment as a soapbox. This seems to be the new trend; rumors continue to circulate that Million Dollar Baby won over The Aviator at last year's Academy Awards simply because it advocated euthenasia, for example. Our friends on the left coast are more vocal and will go to greater lengths to influence the common folk than is ever appropriate, and this is just an extension of that, perfectly crafted in that it contains the trap that Niko mentioned and that it goes to great lengths to make it look like an uncommon artistic achievement.
Let us not skirt past the issue of homosexuality in the movie; this, inherently, does not make the movie bad, but the way in which it is presented and the spirit in which it was inserted into the movie makes it far different from something crafted with art and not agenda in mind; for example, the movie Philadelphia, which I love very much. I will not take the time to summarize it, but, for anyone who has seen it, they know what I'm describing. With Brokeback mountain, the gay issue seems to be the central idea in the movie, which they first decided to build a plot around, then, after this was complete, they thought long and hard how to make it seem like they had done none of this in the first place in such a way that the Hollywood elite would praise them for a job well done on creatively hiding their intent and the rest of us would praise them for a job well done on the movie as a whole. It is the all-too-Hollywood method of inserting their way of life into that of another group of people (especially groups that they see as backward or inferior) that is the icing on the cake, though; the homosexual cowboy is a concept that exists solely to make certain groups of people feel like their culture is being invaded, mocked, what have you; add in the unnecessary sex (nudity and graphic sex seem to be becoming more and more important to a film if it hopes to be nominated for anything) and scenes tailor-made to spit in the eye of the enemies of Hollywood and you have something that will be regarded as a "classic" for decades.
