Brokeback Mountain
Dec. 31st, 2005 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraI spent a big chuck of the yesterday afternoon watching Brokeback Mountain at the local multiplex.
My companion was Debra whose twenty-seven year old son came out last year. She got hysterical afterwards. "Jack was bashed to death, wasn't he?" she asked.
"Ennis certainly thought so," I said.
Myself, I found the movie less emotionally affecting than I thought it would be and I blame that on the melodrama. I'm a big fan of the original Annie Proulx short story. What I liked best about the story was that it was very spare, a love story flowing between blunt, unevocative words. The broader canvas ruined that effect for me. Gorgeous cinematography and the parts that focused on Jack and Ennis as individuals, their sad trajectories, were very well observed. (Loved how Lureen's response to her hollow marriage was just to keep growing blonder and blonder and blonder.) But all that Lifetime, Television For Women dialogue when the two lovers were together? Hated it! Okay, I only know two gay cowboys myself – Lew and JDK – which is probably not a representative sample, but they both have brilliant, morbid, gallows humor and I thought it was bizarre that Jack and Ennis never crack a single joke in twenty years. I mean, humor is the coping mechanism for situations like this, right?
My companion was Debra whose twenty-seven year old son came out last year. She got hysterical afterwards. "Jack was bashed to death, wasn't he?" she asked.
"Ennis certainly thought so," I said.
Myself, I found the movie less emotionally affecting than I thought it would be and I blame that on the melodrama. I'm a big fan of the original Annie Proulx short story. What I liked best about the story was that it was very spare, a love story flowing between blunt, unevocative words. The broader canvas ruined that effect for me. Gorgeous cinematography and the parts that focused on Jack and Ennis as individuals, their sad trajectories, were very well observed. (Loved how Lureen's response to her hollow marriage was just to keep growing blonder and blonder and blonder.) But all that Lifetime, Television For Women dialogue when the two lovers were together? Hated it! Okay, I only know two gay cowboys myself – Lew and JDK – which is probably not a representative sample, but they both have brilliant, morbid, gallows humor and I thought it was bizarre that Jack and Ennis never crack a single joke in twenty years. I mean, humor is the coping mechanism for situations like this, right?
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Date: 2006-01-01 07:42 am (UTC)