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nterestingly,
Brokeback Mountain is based on Annie Proulx's 1997
New Yorker short story. Screenwriters Larry McMultry (Lonesome Dove) and Diana Ossana handle the
brilliantly bittersweet material with a contradictory stroke of stark firmness and tenderness. Consequently, Lee's visionary outlook for the serene script has a simmering explosiveness because this film never hesitates or apologizes for actually demonstrating the physicality and psychological needs for these self-inflicted cowboys to embrace their passion and pain. Effectively, Lee oversees the slow burn in these complex men as the ambivalence of their convenient arrangement manifests itself into a solid romance that's as rampant and reassuring as any other hand-holding narrative to date."
MovieEye.com