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Mar. 5th, 2006 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8An interesting essay on the Oscars--
The theme of star-crossed lovers can certainly be "overtly political" -- just look at Romeo and Juliet. But I'm pretty sure that Brokeback doesn't end with two grieving families reconciling in a belated, "glooming peace." It's mainly, from what I'm told, just a love story.
Horn and King insist that this love story is "overtly political" because the two people in love both happen to be the same gender. But they didn't fall in love as a "political" act. No two people ever have. Not Romeo and Juliet, not Tony and Maria, and not Jack and Ennis.
The comments are definitely worth checking out, too.
Now watch-- I just posted an entry about all this, and I'll still forget to watch the silly things. :-)
The theme of star-crossed lovers can certainly be "overtly political" -- just look at Romeo and Juliet. But I'm pretty sure that Brokeback doesn't end with two grieving families reconciling in a belated, "glooming peace." It's mainly, from what I'm told, just a love story.
Horn and King insist that this love story is "overtly political" because the two people in love both happen to be the same gender. But they didn't fall in love as a "political" act. No two people ever have. Not Romeo and Juliet, not Tony and Maria, and not Jack and Ennis.
The comments are definitely worth checking out, too.
Now watch-- I just posted an entry about all this, and I'll still forget to watch the silly things. :-)
