Duan bei san

Marlboro must be fuming now ever since brokeback mt. came to screen. Suddenly their mascot, the macho cowboy who proudly sandwiches a marlboro cigarette in between his lips while whipping his cows and at the same time riding on horse, has had his masculine image seriously challenged by some chinese guy whose surname literally means 'red'. All of a sudden it's not cool anymore to be a cowboy - his most-likely task would be tending after sheep in their grazing fields and he would most likely be gay. Wearing a cowboy hat and shoes with studs has never seemed so homo before.

It was with an open and unbiased mind that i went to catch the show everyone refers to as 'the gay cowboy show' on wednesday with evon dear. And we weren't stopped to show our IC's, which was hugely unexpected as i was dressed in my usual lok kok attire (aka tshirt berms slippers - the holy trinity) while Dear's was a total mismatch to mine - black pants and nice looking shoes, which admittedly made her looked older. So tan dio loh, and i went in gleefully with my underaged patron.

Scenes that made us cringe in our seats did not take long to materialise. Those 2 cowboys began doing some, erhm, backside activities not long after the show started. Evon began rubbing her hands in delight and squeeled in excitement of the drama that was to unfold in front of her very eyes - two grown man making out, both trying to subdue each other.

There were other similar scenes as well, but what disturbed me was not the way a male tongue began exchanging fluids with another male tongue, but how these scenes made the other people in the audience giggle. Or when they couldn't contain their laughter when the cowboy's wife accidentally discovered her man locking lips with another man. Was it really so funny or are we kinda backward in our thinking? Here we have a dramatic moment in the show, with the horror of realization that her husband was different from what she had known all the while, and people laugh?

Don't think i'm being too ridiculous here am i? Sometimes i don't know what are people thinking about. Or maybe we singaporeans have the penchant of turning embarassment into laughter. Oh well i don't really know.

The show took 2 hours to complete, but it felt at least 3 hours had passed, with a very very slow pace maintained throughout the movie. Breathtaking scenes nonetheless, but somehow the storyline galloped at a snail's pace. Especially for my dear haha poor thing found it unbearably slow that she wanted to sleep. As for me i found it ok loh. At least i tried to count the sheep.

Not recommended for people who laugh at the sight of two men kissing and people who don't fancy slow paced movies. Go for it if you like mountains. Or sheep. Or watching some good acting. Or two men kissing.