Friday, February 03, 2006
Brokeback Mountain IS a specifically Gay story!
In the New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn argues that, in spite of much of the publicity and many of the reviews, Brokeback Mountain is a specifically gay story, about the closet and its consequences.
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This article is truly amazing. I think it's great that the film is generating so much intelligent discussion long after its initial release. It is causing much debate and critical thinking. I agree wholeheartedly that the subject of the film is repression and the terrible toll its takes on those who constantly bury their emotions. A very close friend of mine was very Ennis like and refused to acknowledge what were most likely deep homosexual feelings. He was always adamantly heterosexual, at least to the world. He took his own life at 39. The word gay, I feel, must be used carefully. Some people are completely gay, some essentially gay, some more or less gay, some contentedly both gay and straight and some who perhaps, given a nudge, will be gay. Yes, I believe given another era and another landscape, Ennis, perhaps with a great deal of help, could have come out of his crippling closet.
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