My dear Artiste, I can see where our differences lie now. It seems to me that you need to catagorise the film as either anti-gay or pro-gay. I don't see it as either one of the two. I simply see it as a story of two people who fall in love and because of prejudices surrounding them and their own fears (by that I mean mostly Ennis), their lives and the lives of the people closest to them, are torn apart.
Take Romeo and Juliet for instance. I don't see it as anti-heterosexual or pro-heterosexual, anti-young-love or pro-young-love, anti-suicide or pro-suicide. I simply see it as two people who fall in love and because of prejudices surrounding them and their own fears, their lives and the lives of the people closest to them, are torn apart.
Not pro or anti anything, simply a tragic love story.
Susie
And that susie, is just how I see the film. It,s a tragic love story about two people, who just happened to be men, who couldn,t be together because of Ennis,s fear of them being killed, and because of the views of narrow minded biggoted people who wouldn,t have been able to leave them alone to get on with their lives in peace.
In Lori,s story, Human Interest, Jack and Ennis are living in Vermont, where, in the story, people there tend to mind their own buisness and let people get on with their lives. Is it really like there? Would Jack and Ennis have been "safe" if they have moved somewhere like that? Obviously we,ll never know now, I just wondered. I do wish it could be like that, that other people could just mind their own business and let other people live their lives in peace. I know I,m living in gaga land if I think that, but it would be nice.