I wonder what my reaction to the film would be in a room full of Brokies watching together. Would we all start a chain reaction and cause one another to start weeping? 
I'm with Mel on this -- I think we'd be less likely to cry all together than to cry separately. We'd look around and see how funny we looked (not that BBM isn't tragic, but you know what I mean ...) and that would be enough to stop the tears.
Here's one for you. I was crying this morning, in my car, after dropping off my son at school. Just about some things going on, don't bother comforting me because that's not the point of the story. Anyway, I stop at a stoplight and look into my rearview mirror, and who do I see driving the car behind me but Jake Gyllenhaal's second cousin.
Yes. Jake's second cousin is the dad of a kid at my son's school. I found that out the day I was introduced to him. I heard his last name, and of course I asked if he was a relation, and he was. Something in his demeanor kept me from launching into a passionate Brokeback discussion. We're casual acquaintances now, and I can tell you that the man is nothing like Jake (possibly a faint family resemblance around the eyes -- same with Anders Gyllenhaal, Jake's uncle, who was editor of the Minneapolis paper when I lived in Minneapolis).
I took Jake's second cousin's presence as some kind of weird sign of ... I don't know, hope? absurdity? Something. Whatever the case, that odd encounter made me stop crying and cleared up my mood!
