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voisjoe1
Jul 16, 2014voisjoe1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is the movie where mainstream America learned that a gay couple loved one another just like a straight couple. Ang Lee won the Oscar for best director. One way Lee convinced me of his great directing abilities is that Ledger and Gyllenhaal acted neither gay nor straight in the film. Furthermore, I now have no more evidence whether either actor is straight or gay in real life. Ang Lee took his money from this film and then made the NC-17 Mandarin movie Lust where a straight lover finds that love can be painful (and deadly) for oneself and one's political compatriots. In 2013, the French film, Blue is the Warmest Color, nudged the mainstream world a step closer to realizing that gay people need and deserve love and companionship just like straight people. I find it laughable that some viewers feel that gay love is more "carnal and lascivious" than straight love.