Re: Brokeback Mountain: A review by David McReynolds
info@pulpculture.org wrote:
By leaving the ending ambiguous, it allows people to project on to the film their own interpretations.
Is that the Hollywood way? Zizek has a riff somewhere on the shark in Jaws - people have projected all kinds of meanings onto it. But the point is that none of them are right. If any were “right” then it might alienate a potential ticket-buyers, so best to keep it free-floating.
Doug