[lbo-talk] Re: Brokeback Mountain: A review by David McReynolds

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 4 08:08:27 PST 2006


info at pulpculture.org wrote:


>By leaving the ending ambiguous, it allows people to project on to
>the film their own interpretations.

Is that the Hollywood way? Zizek has a riff somewhere on the shark in Jaws - people have projected all kinds of meanings onto it. But the point is that none of them are right. If any were "right" then it might alienate a potential ticket-buyers, so best to keep it free-floating.

Doug



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