I have a chat buddy, a young man who lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. We have been chatting for nearly a year now... he is young, bright, opinionated and, despite (or perhaps because of) his occasionally fractured English, a delightful correspondent. I have learned much about Eastern Europe from him. I spoke to him of Brokeback Mountain when I first saw it and urged him to move heaven and earth to see it.
Surprisingly (to me) it played Sofia about 4 months later and he went to see it. Thirlled, I asked him how he liked it. "I hate this." he answered. "Cowboys... I don't care about cowboys... American bullsh*t." That was the sum total of his response.
Being well-trained after months on the Imdb board, I resisted the urge to sever all ties and make a voodoo doll in his image. I let the matter drop and no more was said on the subject until 2 days ago. (He saw it in May.)
He casually mentioned some "Pirate" website that is very popular in Bulgaria which offers 8,000 (!) titles for free download. Among his downloads was, you guessed it... Brokeback. I asked him how he liked it the second time. His response was rapturous. "This is great movie. Best in 2005." "What?!" I replied. "I thought you hated it." "No," he came back. "I was crazy then... I don't know why I say that. This is great movie... maybe best ever... I don't know."
We had our own little Bettermost forum then and there... and he was like all newbies... wide-eyed with wonder that a film could take over his life.
He asked where he could find more about the film and I, of course, steered him here and, yesterday he visited. I don't know if he's joined up... but if you see a young man with a heavy accent wandering around... I hope you'll show him a true Bettermost Welcome.
BBM - capturing hearts - one at a time.
--Kudz
PS -- if this isn't the right place for this, my bad... please forgive, mods.
