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Masculinity In Ang Lee

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Landscape and setting are also used to narrate the development of Ennis and Jack’s relationship. Ang Lee is able to give a sense of attachment and romanticized the landscape to the viewers with an amount of paradox it contains. Jack and Ennis encounters mostly occurs in this private natural space, yet they are being repressed to hide their love in their heteronormative life. Nature in the film, somehow relates to this character’s freedom of how they are able to be truly in love and free from societies within a specific space. However, the landscape seen in the film is a indication of the traction between deceit towards society, families and the realism they face with love, specifically the rural west which seeks to protect itself from the homosexuality based on the negative views of the society. …show more content…

In particular, Childress, Texas, the town of Jack’s marital home is representative of an oppressive, hegemonic society in which Jack is marginalized due to his failed rodeo career and flamboyant attitudes. The settings of family and community in the life of Brokeback Mountain present parallels what typically used in classic Westerns adopted to employ themes of masculine in societal settings. Ang Lee applies the traditional constructs of masculinity in the context of a contemporary Western, to convey the protagonists as marginalized males, who instead of seeking control and power within domestic settings, in fact view, them as an unnatural environment in which they are forced to act in accordance to the conventional role of masculinity from which they can only find escape in the

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