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NEW FRONTIERS.(Brokeback Mountain)(Movie Review)

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From 1997, the Annie Proulx story that inspired the film.

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The new Ang Lee film, "Brokeback Mountain," is a love story that starts in 1963 and never ends. The first scene is a master class in the dusty and the taciturn, with gusts of wind doing all the talking. A cowboy stands against a wall in Signal, Wyoming, his hat tipped down as if he were falling asleep. Another fellow, barely more than a kid, turns up in a coughing old truck and joins the waiting game; both are in search of a job. There is something wired and wary in their silence, and the entire passage can be read not only as an echo of "Once Upon a Time in ...

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