Uscita anticipata.
Vado a godermi un po'di sole.
Vi lascio con questo...
E che nessuno dica più che BBM è la storia di due cowboys gay!
First, they are not gay as such. Yes, they do gay stuff (like man-on-man sex), but there’s a difference between doing gay stuff and being gay. “Gay” is a term that indicates self-identification as homosexual, usually male, and really came into its own only after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, which marked the official beginning of a gay liberation movement in the United States. Brokeback Mountain is very definitely set before that date (it begins in 1963) and is very specifically about men who do not have access to the affirming discourse of gay liberation. Besides, these two men state in so many words that they are “not queer”. This may seem a small point, but it is a key to the movie. It’s about not being gay.
Second, they aren’t really cowboys. They dress like cowboys, big hats and all, and have pretensions of some kind to that role (which may overlap considerably with masculinity itself in this context), but for most of the movie they are in fact glorified shepherds. Yes, one character does a bit of rodeo bull-riding, but such an activity is a kind of staged performance of cowboyness -- and, in itself, that detail says something about the movie’s subtle commentary on role playing and self-identification. (Talking about the cowboy hats, I note that, in what is perhaps a sly dig at old-style westerns, one of the men wears a white hat and the other a black one.)
(Mail Guardian Online)
