Brokeback Mountain

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It's sort of one of those "what's all the fuss about" movies, bcause it's really such a small film, that succeeds entirely on the smallest details of both performance and design since so much of the film is about reticence both necessary and not. I mean, yeah it's "the gay cowboy" movie, but I recommend this film to the dissatisified.

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It definitely looks worth seeing and I'm very much looking forward to doing so, but it's also painfully obvious (based on the trailers I've seen) that it (like so many other films with queer protagonists, and especially with gay male protagonists) will end with at least one of the two main characters dying in some premature fashion (I'm betting from either AIDs or bashing). Knowing that this almost certainly happens in Brokeback Mountain won't stop me from seeing or enjoying it, or even necessarily make it a less good film, but I'd dearly love to see more films where more gay men survive. A combination of the use of character death to promote sympathy that started with gay male characters in the 1970s, with the AIDs epidemic of the '80s enshrined gay men dying as an exceptionally enduring archetype both inside and outside of gay male culture.

In any case, Ang Lee and gay cowboys, there's no bad there...