Roger Ebert his analysis of Brokeback Mounta pots out the way which many reviews scribed the film as a “gay wboy movie,” not focg on elements like homophobia, Brokeback Mounta as a challenge to heteronormative iologi, and the plexy of such relatnships.
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'BROKEBACK' AND THE GAY ONTIER
Brokeback Mounta is so gay. I don't mean to sult you by statg the obv. One of the movie's better-circulated nicknam is Bareback Mounta, and one lovely, sp-slicked scene after another, earns . But readg some of the New York and L.A. film crics, you might be nfed. The "ostensible gay Wtern," an advance review Variety sniffed. "Jack and Ennis's feelgs transcend anythg as mundane as sexual orientatn," acrdg to the New... * film mountain cowboy gay *
Jt about everythg about the wboy way of life screams gay: leather, assls chaps, wboy hats, nim jackets, tight jeans, and spendg a lot of time buildg up a sweat wh other guys. He learned his lson early when his father took him to observe the body of a gay rancher who was beaten to ath by his neighbors, and Ennis speculat that his own father was one of those volved the murr. As for the movie self, I thk giv a realistic view of life as a gay man the 1950s and 1960s [I remember well beg om a small cy the South and growg up that era].
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Still livg Atlanta, you need only check out the gay chatl to see that there rema thoands [undoubtedly more] of Ennis Del Mars and Jack Twists fightg the same battl over reprsn, discrimatn, and doomed efforts to nform sexually this regn.
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I believe that if Hollywood would have been hont wh the public, that at least one gay liplock should have been part of the previews--alas, wasn't to be. Plot-wise, the film furthers the grievance-trope first tablished the Matthew Shepard se: the penalty for homosexualy is ath at the hands of heterosexuals. I n image someone weepg at this film, intifyg wh , bee he always wanted to stay the Mar, or be an artist or a is able to accept a ltle more willgly that he is pably gay.