Take Brokeback Mountain, remove the anguish of the two protagonists (and the homophobia of everyone else), spoon in some ultra-tolerant far-western good ol' boys and gals, add maple syrup to taste - and you've got Big Eden, a movie that appeared (and swiftly disappeared) in 2000.All of which sounds as if I didn't enjoy this film. But I did - it's engaging, characterful and unpretentious. And if its theme of a remote community conspiring to bring two shy people together is a little contrived - well, so what?
It's refreshing to find a film that doesn't feel obliged to wave a flag for a cause, but is content to tell a simple story with charm and grace.
And by allowing its characters a 'happy ending', perhaps, when you think about it, it's maybe a tad more subversively provocative than the wonderful angst-fest that was Brokeback.
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Were there many car chases?
Well....
There was an ambulance dash and, at the end, a high-speed rush to the airport.
Then there was the bit with the demented Cyberdroids - and the Manga animated sequence featuring a rabid Komodo Dragon.
And I forgot to mention Salma Hayek's brief appearance as a Karate instructor with an 'agenda'.
Something for everyone, really.
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