"No dude, independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding."

-Cartman

I know Brokeback Mountain has been "out" for a while, but for crying out loud, why is there such a fuss about two cowboys who are gay. Is that the final "gay invasion" of everything pure to the United States culture? The irony is that South Park predicted that this would be a hit indie film, of course they were eating pudding.

However, both conservatives and liberals are making too much of this film. For the religious conservatives, if being gay is a sin, why should you care if they will burn in hell for all eternity, as long as you have your eternal salvation, so just go away. As for the liberals, this movie is not helping anyone and is as easily as offensive as Farenheit 911 and Bowling for Columbine. These types of movies do nothing to produce acceptance and only further divides. It is only good for its shock factor and that has destroyed for me an merits it may actually have had for a movie.

I have come to discover that I hold a dislike towards these movies which sole purpose is to deliver a political message (ie. The Life of David Gale, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Dammit when I am watching a movie, I don't need to indoctrinated when I watch a movie, I can come up with my own opinions.

-Trevor