I'm with waks. The ideological project of Braveheart is to valorize both Wallace and the oscar as Scottish national heroes. This is done in the crudest possible way. The screenplay says repeatedly that thinking is more important than fighting, yet problems are always met with muscle-power in the movie, which wallows in violence and vengeance every chance it gets. In the absence of satisfying moral dilemmas, Braveheart is an action film with an unhappy ending rather than the tragedy it would like to be. It's sad that Paramount Pictures, which has many gay employees, has stooped to release such a flawed work of bigotry and forced them to stand behind it.
