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Article: Gay Cowboy Regrets; 'Brokeback Mountain' Sidles Up to 'Midnight Cowboy'
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- The Stranger
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- December 29, 2005
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AFTER SEEING the film twice, and reading several reviews and voluminous blog-based discourse on the subject, I have only one question about Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain: Umm, how is it not a gay cowboy movie? Or rather, umm, how is it anything but?
As was detailed in Annie Wagner's review of the film in these pages, some critics are moistly proclaiming that Brokeback Mountain is merely a tale about Love Itself, as opposed to love between two men specifically, or that the characterization "gay" (or "cowboy" for that matter) somehow demeans the film, missing the larger, presumably universal dimension of its central relationship. But let's be clear: Those are just the kinds of things people ...