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Title: Why neocons can't stop landslide of 'Brokeback Mountain'
Post by: Impish on February 15, 2006, 10:34:36 am
by Mark Morford.

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The screech of the right's homophobes is being easily drowned out by the fact that this astonishing, pitch-perfect film is now considered a movie that, quite literally, changes minds. Shifts perceptions. That moves the human experiment forward and makes people truly think about sex and gender and love and not in the way that, say, "Pride & Prejudice" makes you think, because that kind of thinking is merely sweet and harmless, whereas "Brokeback" slaps bigotry and intolerance upside its knobby little head and induces heated discussions of the film's dynamics and politics and ideas of love over a bottle of wine and some deep, curious sighing.

Read the entire article here:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/20/DDGJIGPDKE1.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/20/DDGJIGPDKE1.DTL)