another review of Brokeback Mountain

Readers might be interested in this review of Brokeback Mountain. In this review, Steven Greydanus acknowledges the artistic merit of the movie. He, however, ultimately concludes with this critique: "In the end, in its easygoing, nonpolemical way Brokeback Mountain is nothing less than an indictment not just of heterosexism but of masculinity itself, and thereby of human nature as male and female. It's a juandiced portrait of maleness in crisis--a crisis extending not only to the sexual identities of the two central characters, but also to the validity of manhood as exemplified by every other male character in the film. It may be the most profoundly anti-western western ever made, not only post-modern and post-heroic, but post-Christian and post-human."

I should say that I have not seen the movie. In that regard, the movie joins the company of every other non-animated movie made in the last 17 years.

Richard