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**allmyflights** · 01-26-2006, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by Winston
Herring

No, it's just that you seemed to complain an awful lot about some people, such as my humble self, not feeling like acquainting themselves with this film.
I'm not complaining; simply stating that I find your reasons disingenuous at best, inadequate at worst.

It's a reductio ad absurdum to make Ang Lee's film or E. Annie Proulx's novella 'gay people's personal problems' and then compare the film (unfairly, as you haven't seen it) with a documentary about breast cancer!

Some things you give a damn about, others, like gay dramas playing in the theatre in perfect accordance with the mainstream ephemeral interest in these matters... See, it seems to me you formed your judgment not based on the director's credentials, the actors, the plot, the mise en scene, the cinematography (all things pertinent in deciding to see a film, one might think) but instead on a pre-existing bias towards gays- given that you 'complained' or harped on about their 'personal problems' so.

I had, given our previous correspondences, perhaps expected better- that's all.

01-26-2006, 02:50 PM	#23
allmyflights Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 391 Senior Member	Originally posted by Winston Herring No, it's just that you seemed to complain an awful lot about some people, such as my humble self, not feeling like acquainting themselves with this film. I'm not complaining; simply stating that I find your reasons disingenuous at best, inadequate at worst. It's a reductio ad absurdum to make Ang Lee's film or E. Annie Proulx's novella 'gay people's personal problems' and then compare the film (unfairly, as you haven't seen it) with a documentary about breast cancer! Some things you give a damn about, others, like gay dramas playing in the theatre in perfect accordance with the mainstream ephemeral interest in these matters... See, it seems to me you formed your judgment not based on the director's credentials, the actors, the plot, the mise en scene, the cinematography (all things pertinent in deciding to see a film, one might think) but instead on a pre-existing bias towards gays- given that you 'complained' or harped on about their 'personal problems' so. I had, given our previous correspondences, perhaps expected better- that's all.
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