Comments on: “Let Be, Let Be” - a Review of Brokeback Mountain

By: mickie

mickie — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:50:56 +0000

Funny, Allison has a completely different take on this on….

By: Alex M.

Alex M. — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:09:38 +0000

I read with interest Julie T’s comments about Ted Casablanca’s column. I must confess ignorance about Mr. Casablanca but I wanted to chime in on his observations. I am a contemporary of the two main characters in Brokeback Mt. The main difference is that I grew up in New York City. Despite that, in order to gain the love of my family and the acceptence of society, I married after having lived as an out gay man. In the 1960’s gay life was nowhere near as acceptable as it has become subsequently (and, Lord knows, it is still far from being accepted broadly — even in the so-called blue states).

Brokeback Mountain touched me deeply as it did many with whom I have spoken. Ang Lee may well receive the Acadamy Award for this well crafted film, but he should also receive awards from such important civil rights organizations as the Human Rights Campaign for shining light on a subject that most people would rather ignor.

I would urge you to see this movie so that you can decide if it does what it set out to do — open hearts and minds.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:05:56 +0000

I noticed Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) looks sort of like President Bush if the light hits him in the right way. Wouldn’t that be funny if it was?

By: thomas korn

thomas korn — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:04:46 +0000

good review! i am SO there (open captioned Brokeback Mountain)
:)

By: Ridor

Ridor — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:40:17 +0000

Rob, at first, I thought you were an idiot for watching the movie six times without the captions. But after completing the article, I could not say that you’re an idiot except that you nailed everything on the spot.

Great entry!

Looking forward to the movie!

R-

By: CK

CK — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:19:50 +0000

You’ve left me pondering many things — and one of them is that I know what it’s like to be lonely (try thinking about growing up in an hearing/audist community your entire elementary and part of your pubescent years), and now having found the right person in my wife.

I gots to see BBM now — soon.

By: sarah tullier

sarah tullier — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:51:05 +0000

a;skdfja;s i wanna see it, cant wait. i know im gonna LOVE it.

By: LARRY

LARRY — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:51:18 +0000

You’ve told me about BBM before and I know you just looove this movie. So, now, I cannot wait to see it this Sunday!

You’ve nailed it about making choices and some were made as a result from societal norms or pressures. I’m glad I am what I am today because of choices that I’ve made, even when they weren’t easy to make.

However, life isn’t finished with me and therefore, more choices will be made.

By: julie t.

julie t. — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:40:04 +0000

Do you read Ted Casablanca’s column? I love it- and there, he has frequently taken up issue with the critics hailing this movie as one of the greatest ever. Part of his reasoning is that real gay cowboys in real life would not have made the same choices that these characters did, and that its a bit hard for some of those in the ‘gaysphere’ to swallow. While I haven’t yet seen the movie and cannot
really contribute any meaningful (or fair) analysis, I do somewhat understand where Ted is coming from. For example, think about the TV show, Susan FBEye… While you enjoy how the deaf sleuth goes through episode after another solving these great mysteries, you know that in real life thered be no chance in Samantha’s Hell that somebody deaf could actually pull it off- especially Susan’s effortless ability to communicate in all-hearing groups!

And I don’t know if you can wholly attribute feelings of loneliness only to single people; those in a commited relationship can also feel entirely alone if they’re not satisified intellectually, emotionally, or physically. But I find it very interesting how you saw the movie six times- despite there not being any captions- because that tells me that whatever you saw in this movie struck a such deep resonance within; so deep, that it’s more dear to your heart than the fact that those capable in the industry haven’t gone the extra length to make this movie captioned and accessible for all. I know others who really want to watch this movie but are not willing to miss out on any of the verbose; does that mean they really care about “full accessibility”, or are they simply afraid to take risks? Methinks it could possibly be the latter. But you have to take risks if you want to broaden your perspective. And unfortunately, some Americans are still afraid to do just that.

I can’t wait to see this movie, which will finally put a rest to all my wonderings about what I read in the media - and in this blog! My apologies for the length of this commentary!

By: lisa marie

lisa marie — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:49:58 +0000

beautiful blog.

i hope that rather than seeing this just as a gay movie, they’ll see this as a human movie in all senses.

can’t wait to see it!