A Massachusetts prison officer faces discipline for showing the gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain" to inmates at the state's largest prison because the film includes content “inappropriate for a prison setting”.
Massachusetts Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said that the action was not related to the critically acclaimed film's plot involving a gay love affair. "It was not the subject matter. It was the graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes," Wiffin said.
She said the officer failed to follow prison guidelines that require staff who schedule films to review them in advance for excessive violence, nudity or sex, or scenes involving assaults on correctional staff.
The officer showed the film on Thursday, two days after its American release on DVD, to inmates at a prison in Norfolk, Massachusetts, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.Wiffin declined to discuss his punishment.
"Brokeback Mountain" is about two men who meet and fall in love while wrangling sheep in Wyoming in 1963. It won three Oscars last month, including one for director Ang Lee.
2 comments:
Hmmm...
Brokeback & Prison. Think there's a porn movie waiting to be made of this!
Bye the way...
Have you seen it yet?
A sequal? Brokeback Prison. I have not watched it yet, kinda scarred too. Don't need any more emotion in my life right now. Some day I will.
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