in remembrance of an artist who has left us way too soon. thank you for spending the time you did. i thoroughly enjoyed watching so much of your work and believe i am a better man because of it.
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Such a shame, huh? I'd just watched Ned Kelly, like two months ago and Brokeback Mountain like three months ago.
I was talking about it with my son, Lee, last nite. I said it bothered me how he kind of took that shit, a degradation and he said it was supposed to be like that, kinda a grudge fuck. I guess he could relate more than me. He watched it with his husband. I asked him what his hubbies reaction was and he said he had none. His husband's such a superficial bastard anyway. But it was somehow painful to watch for me. Not because it was a gay scene, as I watched more than my share of it. I think I felt the degradation of it, somehow? I can't explain it as there's sometimes emotion you just can't put your finger on(or finger in, lol)He said, he felt it was more about unrequited love, though.
We talked about it for a while and really felt the loss that Heath is gone too.
Boy, that was an intense 4 minutes. Thanks. I think.
Babz, there was no degradation involved as the act to which you refer in Brokeback Mountain was fully consensual. It reflected Ennis' inability to as yet imagine his desires as something he could express with tenderness--an evolution towards which that is documented with considerable beauty in the rest of the film. We go from a moment of violent passion, to an ending that is one of the most tender ever recorded, a simply caress of a shirt. Heath's art was about showing that trajectory, not about one viewer's perception of a simulated sex act.
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Such a shame, huh? I'd just watched Ned Kelly, like two months ago and Brokeback Mountain like three months ago.
I was talking about it with my son, Lee, last nite. I said it bothered me how he kind of took that shit, a degradation and he said it was supposed to be like that, kinda a grudge fuck. I guess he could relate more than me. He watched it with his husband. I asked him what his hubbies reaction was and he said he had none. His husband's such a superficial bastard anyway. But it was somehow painful to watch for me. Not because it was a gay scene, as I watched more than my share of it. I think I felt the degradation of it, somehow? I can't explain it as there's sometimes emotion you just can't put your finger on(or finger in, lol)He said, he felt it was more about unrequited love, though.
We talked about it for a while and really felt the loss that Heath is gone too.
Boy, that was an intense 4 minutes. Thanks. I think.
Babz, there was no degradation involved as the act to which you refer in Brokeback Mountain was fully consensual. It reflected Ennis' inability to as yet imagine
his desires as something he could express with tenderness--an evolution towards which that is documented with considerable beauty in the rest of the film. We go from a moment of violent passion, to an ending that is one of the most tender ever recorded, a simply caress of a shirt.
Heath's art was about showing that trajectory, not about one viewer's perception of a simulated sex act.
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