I failed to mention one thing that seriously did bother me about the film, and that was the absolutely shitty treatment of all women involved. The women, Ennis and Jack’s wives, helped pay of the price of their husbands’ officially denied relationship, as unsuspecting straight women married to undercover gay men.
As this NYT editorial […]
I guess I’ll put in my 2 cents on Brokeback Mountain, since it’s like a blogworld membership affirmation or something.
It was a beautiful film, the kind that leaves a feeling with you after you watch it, a taste you can’t shake for a bit.
It was a beautiful film visually as well, the breathtaking scenery of […]
Tuesday morning a couple of other Assistant Language Teachers in my area came to watch me teach, supposedly to get ideas about teaching for their own schools. Our lesson was supposed to be a normal one, nothing special, ignoring the visitors as much as possible (previous shadowing experiences have included the visitors as subsitute teachers […]
A teacher I met at an enkai told me she works at a small alternative high school, for kids who didn’t make it in the regular schools for whatever reason. After the structure and uniforms and delineated student-teacher relationships that define even my non-academic, mid-level school, I was curious about the kids who don’t play […]