[lbo-talk] Re: Brian On "Brokeback Mountain" & "The Reception"

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Tue Jan 31 08:58:28 PST 2006


Dear List:

Joel writes:


> 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 . . .

But Ennis is only cut off because Ang Lee wants him to be. He never explains why he is cut off. Ennis' agony arises from the fact that he feels he is doing something unnatural, which in the universe lee sets up he is.


> . . . 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.

But in Lee's world self-loathing is appropriate.


> So profoundly sad and emblematic.

It is neither. Lee's world is a fatalistic one, not a tragic one.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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