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ednbarby:
My husband and I were talking about you-know-what last night, and he admitted that it actually has changed the way he thinks about gay men.  Here I always thought he was even more progressive than I, but it turns out he too had some of the deeply-ingrained homophobic thoughts and feelings I thought he was above having.  He said, "I think this movie should be mandatory viewing for, well..., everyone, but especially straight men.  Are they talking about showing it in colleges?"  I told him about what I know of some profs showing it already in Human Sexuality, Sociology and Psychology classes.

It got me to thinking what other movies should be mandatory viewing for the masses.  What movies have actually changed your understanding of some aspect of the human condition and made you a more generously loving person?  Here are some others that immediately come to mind to me:

The Accused
Schindler's List
Dead Man Walking
Snow Falling On Cedars
Rabbit-Proof Fence

moremojo:
Great topic! Don't have a lot of time to chime in right now, but two titles that immediately come to mind are Au hasard Balthazar, directed by Robert Bresson, and Unsere Afrikareise, directed by Peter Kubelka. Both were made in 1966, and both are cinematic masterpieces. Both films deal, in their different ways, with the theme of human cruelty to non-human animals, and are really eye-openers on that score.

Another great film worthy of mention is Beau travail, a 1999 feature directed by Claire Denis. An updating of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, this beautiful film shows, like in Brokeback Mountain, how repressed homosexual desire can poison and destroy the lives of men. One of the last great films of the twentieth century, and one of the best gay-themed films I have seen.

Cheers,
Scott

littleguitar:
I just wanted to say, on the topic of teaching it in classes, my professor is teaching a course this summer with Brokeback (both story and film)

It's a literature into film course, so not about homophobia necessarily, but it will get a lot of people to see it... I know a few people myself who are taking that class but haven't seen Brokeback and said they weren't going to.  If only I weren't graduating this semester I would for sure take it  ::)

isabelle:

--- Quote from: littleguitar on April 19, 2006, 09:35:33 am ---I just wanted to say, on the topic of teaching it in classes, my professor is teaching a course this summer with Brokeback (both story and film)

It's a literature into film course, so not about homophobia necessarily, but it will get a lot of people to see it... I know a few people myself who are taking that class but haven't seen Brokeback and said they weren't going to.  If only I weren't graduating this semester I would for sure take it  ::)



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HeHe... I am a teacher myself, and my pupils have to put up with me and what I choose to make them study throughout the school-year (they have no choice of courses). So guess what I will be making them study next academic year? Yes...!

henrypie:
Ma vie en rose!

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