Brokeback Mountain II
On Friday, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain came to the nabes, so I ran around the corner to see the first showing. I wanted to get the experience of seeing the movie for the first time behind me as quickly as possible. As it happens, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have adapted E Annie Proulx's story of the same name so faithfully that, if you know what Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal look like on screen, then the movie does little more than fill in the color - so far as seeing it the first time goes.
When I saw how faithful Brokeback Mountain is to "Brokeback Mountain," I stopped paying attention to what was going to happen next, and a second story emerged. ...
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Comments
What a very thoughtful piece. Beautifully excecuted. I have neither read the story nor seen the movie. I want very much to read the story first; your excellent review has really piqued my curiosity.
Posted by: patricia | December 19, 2005 09:16 AM