Regarding Inaugural ass-fuck
what was that other movie which used “character fucking development” to motivate a first quarter drunk sex episode? I mean Bildi’s consecutive ‘ew gay men can’t keep their hands off each other’ and ‘omg hot lesbians’ posts at least didn’t try to sound this outraged.
Not entirely accurate anyway as there was, beforehand, a coherent narrative strategy, however subterranean it could feel(and certainly pursued post-mountain regarding how the viewer is asked to react to items such as a ‘shirt’, a ‘postcard’ etc)where I felt characterization was trusted over scattered glances, the eye-lines, and hesitance in bonding (I particularly liked the scene where Jack is peeling ‘taters daring himself not to look over Ennis washing his balls). Sure, the animalistic lack of meet-cute is kind of fucked up, and said cinematic plotline of drunk sex doesn’t always lead to a particular bond. It remains, though, the most interesting and vital way to carnally rope in a pair who have a relationship which ‘progresses’ through years on contradictory feelings, ambiguity and importantly, the anguish of words left unsaid.
I repeat, and will probably continue to do so during this kerfuffle (at least until I inevitably hate on Inception) The gayness is merely a pretext; and Brokeback shouldn’t be condemned for wanting to examine character struggles which could emerge independent of any relationship. Ang Lee is a frosty hearted man. He’s keener on the absence of a relationship.
You would think with the focus on Ennis’s wife, why the story immediately reveals her to Jack and Ennis’ furtive game (rather than Ennis stringing her along and she eventually discovers), the less and less screen time of the pair’s private affections over the acceptance of surface lives, the film’s abruptness in dealing with a character’s death; would clue in the viewer why the film’s resonance is not limited to merely a romantic form of passion.
