Saturday, June 20, 2009

Bus Stop (1956)



Ah, the 1950s, when men were men and women were cattle. For the ranch hand, the female body displaces real desire, bestial love--washing down raw beef with milk from a jug. Only secondarily does brutality toward the feminine satisfy:

"So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you."

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