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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 03/01/06 09:40
irascian wrote:
> Gunther Gloop wrote:
>
>> I saw Capote yesterday and I think it illustrates a point I was
>> making earlier in this thread...
>>
>>
>> Now take Capote. It's not about judging a person or an event. It's
>> not about taking sides, or swaying a particular point-of-view one
>> way or another.
>>
>> It's an unbiased presentation of the story. It contains complex
>> (though not complicated) thoughts and emotions and points-of-view.
>> It has people that do very bad things in different ways.
>> It also shows these individuals as _real_ 3-dimensional people.
>> They're not all bad. They are far from all-good.
>
>
> I don't get your point. How is this any different from "Brokeback
> Mountain"? Lee doesn't ram an opinion down our throat. He presents a
> detached viewpoint of what happens. Our two "romantic heroes" are far
> from all-good and the movie shows the damage they inflict on others,
> as well as themselves, with the choices they make.
You don't see my point because you clearly haven't read what I wrote. I
never mentioned Brokeback Mountain in any of the above. I wasn't speaking
_at all_ about Brokeback Mountain there.
As I _did_ say... I never saw Brokeback Mountain. Most of my posts on this
thread have been to do with clarifying my "worry" in seeing a movie that has
been hijacked by a particular "vested-interest" single-view group.
Others here have already clarified for me that Brokeback Mountain is not a
one-sided attack/lesson-to-be-learned, but a "real story". That was good
enough for me some days ago.
Then someone mentioned Capote the other day and I had just seen it so I used
that as a further example of my earlier point.
-Kevin.
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