[lbo-talk] David Ehrenstein On Ang Lee's BM

[Michael Hoover]

>>> mpollak at panix.com 02/01/06 6:33 PM >>>
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary
<quote>"Brokeback" is a shrewdly crafted "prestige" 
picture aimed like a heat-seeking missile at the same 
female viewers who made "Queer as Folk" a cable hit. 
The movie is not daring, or edgy, or even particularly 
controversial. It's not about "gay liberation" or the 
radical politics that would transform self and society. 
What it is is a well-closeted romance, replete with 
studly leads smooching and muttering about "feelings" 
in ways sure to set aflutter those feminine hearts longing 
for a soft-core version of hot man-to-man action.
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Michael
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ang lee has a distinctive visual style and he pays meticulous
attention to detail, his films - and the characters in them - 
explore love, fear, hope, loss and regret (sometimes pretty
effectively, sometimes not), in general, they question burdens 
of tradition and social obligation set against individual freedom
(again, fairly well at times, less successfully at others)...   mh