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Old 12-14-2005, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by sparky
POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILER ALERTOne extremely annoying and predictable development is the politically correct gay cynic response I have read a few times.
The problem is that so many people see it as a gay movie. GLAAD didn't help by sending a press release about it the day it opened, trying to get some political capital out of it.

Once it is defined as a gay movie, then a lot of gay people are going to start looking at the movie through a political lens. I caught myself doing it from time to time, but was able to check myself.

You have described the movie very accurately, sparky. It is a love story between two men. It is really irrelevant if they were straight men who fell in love, one gay guy and a straight guy, two gay guys that would have been able to identify themselves that way in a different place and time, etc.
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