Movie Review

A-
After all the hype, I was wondering what this might turn out to be. And after reading the short-story I was even more intrigued. Having grown up on a ranch, I knew all too well the expected "code of ethic" that a man is measured by. There is no room for emotion. There is no time for frivolous dreams, just hard, dirty work.
Oh yes, there are good times, with family or friends. But the chores always took the numero uno spot!

I was a bit disappointed by the film, in that the emotion in the original story was about two men struggling to be who they were expected to be, versus who they wanted to be. In the film, we see a lot of focus on the emotion attached to their respective wives. (IE: The sobbing wife peering out the window to see her husband leaving on a fishing trip with his buddy.) That was not in the book! So I guess I was a bit turned off by the attention given to that particular part of the story, instead of focusing on the pain suffered by the two men whom the story was really about.

If you were going to see soft porn and get turned on by two men gettin it on... well that was not really part of the scene either. You see, like many of us, these guys were taught that lookin at another man, touching another man, and for certain having sex with another man was "the Devil's work"! The way they chose to depict this in the film was fair, but lacked the emotion it could have shown.

Overall, the story is sad. And they did a great job of displaying that sadness. I just wish there was a film maker out there with the balls to make a film where the guys end up happy. Where no one has to die beat to death with a tire iron for being GAY or BI.

The overall lesson from this film I beleive is... Don't live your life in fear! Don't let life pass you by... when love is standing at your door!!