Admittedly, I went to see this movie with the wrong expectations. I knew only that it had been generally praised by the critics, Nicole Kidman had won an academy award, Meryl Streep was also in it, and I had seen it described as a "chick flick" and a story about the "cost of conformity." Those last two points I thought should make it enjoyable to my wife and to me, respectively.
I was wrong. About 15 minutes into the movie I came to the same uncomfortable realization that I once had upon dropping in for a drink at an open-air bar that had a magnificent view overlooking San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico. This is no place for a normal, mentally healthy, heterosexual person. Well-acted though it may be, the movie is clearly by, about, and for homosexual militants. It strongly suggests that homosexuals are by their very nature superior beings, but at the same time generally miserable creatures. Their misery, however, is mainly a consequence of the pressure that straight society puts upon them to be something other than homosexuals. That's where "the cost of conformity" comes in.
I'm sorry, but I'm simply not interested in people who are all wrapped up in their petty little selves and their petty little personal concerns, whatever their sexual preferences happen to be. That this movie should have been foisted upon the public and that we should be told that we are supposed to like it is a very unfortunate sign of the times.
I was wrong. About 15 minutes into the movie I came to the same uncomfortable realization that I once had upon dropping in for a drink at an open-air bar that had a magnificent view overlooking San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico. This is no place for a normal, mentally healthy, heterosexual person. Well-acted though it may be, the movie is clearly by, about, and for homosexual militants. It strongly suggests that homosexuals are by their very nature superior beings, but at the same time generally miserable creatures. Their misery, however, is mainly a consequence of the pressure that straight society puts upon them to be something other than homosexuals. That's where "the cost of conformity" comes in.
I'm sorry, but I'm simply not interested in people who are all wrapped up in their petty little selves and their petty little personal concerns, whatever their sexual preferences happen to be. That this movie should have been foisted upon the public and that we should be told that we are supposed to like it is a very unfortunate sign of the times.