>But the world of Brokeback Mountain is apparently hermetically sealed and
>insulated from all the momentous social changes -- especially concerning
>gender and sexuality -- that happened in those decades.
>
>To make a plot like this movie's credible, you would have to begin it in
>the mid-1940s and end it before the mid-1960s.
>
>In Ang Lee's universe, it's as if the sixties and seventies' sexual
>uprisings either didn't happen
I disagree with the conclusion here. I agree with the observation that the events were isolated, but that is part of the film's irony and tragedy: imagine all of that space and being completely alone, cut off from any LGBT community, so full of self-loathing you can't even link your personal feelings and actions to some movement somewhere that wants to help you liberate yourself. So profoundly sad and emblematic.
Joel
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