The Brokeback Project

5/03/06- Anthony Lane gives a better good overview of 2005 in film in this article from the January 16th issue of the New Yorker. He seems to make the claim that the film is heavy handed in saying that gay men are just like everyone else. I don't know what to make of this. Could it be that in the film male on male violence is a "sign" of the West even while trying to tell a nontraditional "western?"