The movie could have shown how for some of us we could never have foreseen us clinging to another guy and eventually establishing a homosexual relationship. The things that occur that changes sexual feelings in people who may not be aware of they have underlying homo feelings. There could have been many more heart rendering moments of ‘realism’. The anal sex scene is exactly what all homophobes think, that everyone is constantly sticking it to each other in the ass and how repulsive those queers are!.
Where was the first eroticism, like the glances by two men urinating in the wild? Where was the first accidental catching of the other one masturbating, and the usual chiding and laughter that follows such a thing? What about the first prolonged looks when bathing, or changing clothes, showing there are erotic thoughts yet to be acted on by someone who may not even know they DO have the ability to act upon them? Where is that first hurdle of acknowledging we can masterbate in the same tent, and ‘allow’ that unusual moment of ‘sharing’? The discussion of “Hey, we’ve all got our needs!” The next stage of mutual masterbation? Then, the follow-up of: “Wanna see what a strange hand feels like?” Those natural elements of building a mutual sexual relationship is what is missing. The things that might sway heterosexuals to at least see HOW homo relationships blossom or even accidentally begin. To me, the most essential things were left out. Where were all the “betweens”? A ton of explicit sex would have been a turnoff to a majority of film goers. The movie jumps from two people who don’t know each other directly to anal sex in a tent. Lee’s version was gloriously beautiful, but I think he failed to ‘establish’ the chronology of a homo relationship.