Rewatching Brokeback Mountain at the End of the World |
Back in 2005, the mere existence of Brokeback Mountain felt like a minor miracle. Twenty years later, Richard Lawson has revisited the film for its recent anniversary rerelease—looking back at the curious disappointment he felt when he first saw it as a recent college grad, and how well it’s turned out to hold up in the years since. With the benefit of time, Lawson writes, “I have learned to appreciate its lilting rhythm, its approximation of the boggling swiftness of years and decades. As one gets older, and further and further from the ages of besotted and star-crossed Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, one more keenly understands the way Brokeback tumbles and drifts along. It is a movie about time as much as it’s about anything else; when you are 22 and hungry for all the immediacy of life, it seems impossible that anything so urgent as Brokeback’s love affair could be made to wait.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Joy Press examines the short and tragic life of Jayne Mansfield as her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, prepares to debut her documentary, My Mom Jayne; VF Spain takes a closer look at Suri Cruise’s low-key young adult life; Brad Pitt opens up about his time in Alcoholics Anonymous; and we’ve got some bad news for anyone dying to see Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey play brothers. |
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