For those who dare to care: I predicted for 2006 “More
bisexuality. The gay phenomenon is so last year” — and sure enough
Brokeback Mountain rides in with eight, count ‘em, Oscar
nods. Though director Ang Lee had the fashionable,
acceptable attitude when he said, “I didn’t know there were so
many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up,” it should be
clear that Brokeback Mountain is less a gay cowboy movie
than a bisexual cowboy movie. (Or, as the Washington Post
calls it with such adult
wit, “cowpoke.”)
The distinction matters because the motive collapses into
incoherence, a land where everything is possible but nothing is
true. Reflecting such ritually subjective terms, Lee gushed, “I
think I’m amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to
want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of
love, the illusion of love, all those things. It’s not simple
things [sic] you can categorize as right or wrong.”
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