In his
review of the film
Brokeback Mountain for
The New York Times,
Daniel Mendelsohn wrote:
"Both narratively and visually,
Brokeback Mountain is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the 'closet' -- about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it. What love story there is occurs early on in the film, and briefly: a summer’s idyll herding sheep on a Wyoming mountain, during which two lonely youths, taciturn Ennis and high-spirited Jack, fall into bed, and then in love, with each other. The sole visual representation of their happiness in love is a single brief shot of the two shirtless youths horsing around in the grass. That shot is eerily -- and significantly -- silent, voiceless: it turns out that what we are seeing is what the boys’ boss is seeing through his binoculars as he spies on them."
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=aside= PaulThanks for maintaining the answer list
while I was away.