Butch & The Kid

Just watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I really liked this movie! I liked the dialogue, the lines, the cinematography, the music, the humour. The thing that I liked most about it was the relationship between Butch and The Kid. The partnership that these two men have is the type of partnership that I think marriage should be. I checked out some reviews and analyses online about the relationship between the two of them, and was disappointed. I found that from the ones I saw, people won't really talk about the relationship between the two of them, even though it is readily agreed by critics that this is one of the main reasons for this movie's appeal. And the reason people won't really explore the relationship is because it's between two men. Oh no! Therefore it must be homoerotic or whatever. Why can't it just be a spiritual relationship? Why do people need to read into it? We are to be developing spiritual bonds of love, and these two men portray an excellent camaraderie and equal partnership. Butch and Sundance, are equals. Men and women are equals. In past times and still today, women, due to being women can't do certain things, because men can't keep it in their pants, for the most part. I have found that the more a man can be respectful and keep his thoughts pure, the more of a loving connection and spiritual relationship can develop between a man and a woman.
This banter, support, understanding, acceptance, love, got your backness and stick by youness (and action!!) of their relationship is what I want in my marriage. I want someone with whom, as they say in Polish, "you can steal horses". In film/ visual media, we often see these relationships between men. We rarely see them between women, because in general, women exist in films in order to develop the male character or to support other women, women generally don't *do* things in film. (This sucks. It is not true to life or true to women's capacity, and ends up selling young men and women on a limited idea of reality, configured to gender; but that is an aside.) And we certainly don't see this relationship existing between a man and a woman, except perhaps in children's films.... but that is another aside that I need to think about more.
Anyway, as far as relationship role models go from film, Butch & Sundance provide an excellent spiritual partnership - and we can see this only if we see their interaction as that of two souls, rather than two men.
Oh, and favourite quote? During the card game... "what's your secret" (pause) "prayer". LMAO