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Double meanings: Lines that can be taken more than one way
dly64:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 26, 2006, 03:56:32 am ---IMO, one of the most amazing things about BBM is that it is completely both at the same time. It is a personal love story with no overt message at all. If a Martian watched it, he/she/it would be oblivious to any larger political implications.
Meanwhile, the story subtly plays upon what viewers know about real life, and tells us something about what society imposes on gay people in general, in 1960s Wyoming as well as in many other eras and cultures. For example, the very fact that the final images involve closets -- the word we happen to use to describe hidden homosexuality -- is not the least bit accidental. The beauty is that it's never at all preachy or hit-you-over-the-head obvious.
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I do agree with you, latjoreme. I should have stated that there is not a social/ politcal agenda in this film. It is not stating that homosexuality is right or wrong or that there should be a law allowing gays to marry, etc. It is a story of these two men living in a time and a place where societal constraints paid a toll on their relationship and everyone else around them.
ottoblom:
I've always felt that ol' man Twist's "Tell you what, I know where Brokeback Mountain is," was a pretty loaded line. But how much he actually does know about Jack I'm not sure.
And some people think he's taunting Ennis with the talk about Jack coming to Lightning Flat with the "other fella."
My feeling is that he doesn't know much, but is a know-it-all and has an almost instinctive "gift" for upsetting other people. Jack must've had some childhood.
Front-Ranger:
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fernly:
(I apologize if this has been said before...)
Ennis Del Mar means island (isolated) in the sea (of homophobia, pain, loneliness) but mar also means damage (noun and verb), and Ennis certainly was damaged and never escaped it, and caused more himself, though never intentionally.
and the word is used in Annie's description of the dozy embrace: Nothing marred it - the damage both men carried didn't diminish the memory
Meryl:
--- Quote from: fernly on July 07, 2006, 10:27:00 am ---(I apologize if this has been said before...)
Del Mar means island (isolated) in the sea (of homophobia, pain, loneliness) but mar also means damage (noun and verb), and Ennis certainly was damaged and never escaped it, and caused more himself, though never intentionally.
and the word is used in Annie's description of the dozy embrace: Nothing marred it - the damage both men carried didn't diminish the memory
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I love that, thanks! Beautiful observation. :)
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