BklynMagus wrote:
>Dear List:
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>I endorse all that Yoshie said. Lee is careful not to show anything outside of a controlled, closed world in his film.
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What Lee shows is reality for most of this country right now.
>According to the logic of his film, being queer is unnatural.
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Absolutely not. What the film argues is that being unable to live one's
passions is unnatural.
>Also, in my article I point out a key moment -- the transition from the two shepherds having sex to the sheep killed by a coyote -- a consequence where queer sex leads to gory death -- as if nature itself were in revulsion of what had happened in that tent.
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I think that's called forshadowing, but I don't think it's an argument
that queer sex leads to gory death in some kind of inevitable way.
Anyway, I think we've got another one of those diffs as with Million Dollar Baby; so you know. That's fine.
Joanna
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