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[freckles_and_doubt]

The other day someone told me about a friend of theirs who is an older man, devoutly Christian and therefore frustratedly and conflictedly unable to do anything positive about the fact that he's also gay. Apparently he has seen Brokeback Mountain twenty-seven times since it opened on circuit here. He goes to see it every afternoon, and cries a lot.

This is a level of investment in a film that I personally only associate with the madder, more geeky fringes of Star Wars and LotR fandom. In this very different context, it's probably the saddest thing I've heard in ages.

In other shirt news, I have finally worked out who the much-drooled-over Sawyer is in Lost. I'm sorry, ladies, I don't get it. No amount of pretty-boy de-shirtage is ever going to make him into anything other than a total dickhead.

Comments

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

It's incredibly cruel - at least if LotR and Star Wars offer repetitive enactment of something, it's closure and achievement. To bury yourself so narcissistically in a repeated re-enactment of the tragedy of your own life is enormously sad and futile. It suggests that you can see no possible solution to the problem, so that the vicarious motif of its endless rehearsal is actually desirable rather than depressing. Bloody world we live in.