The Cowboy Myth

Today's New York Times, has a piece up on the recently released and quite controversial movie "Brokeback Mountain". The author indicates that What has gone missing is that this is also that rare American film that seamlessly breaches the divide between the political and the personal, the past and the present. Here, against the backdrop of the great American West, that mythic territory of rugged individualism and the Marlboro Man, is a quietly devastating look at masculinity and its discontents.