Paul Mescal, speaking at Cannes, rejects comparisons between his film 'The History of Sound' and 'Brokeback Mountain', highlighting that while both feature male relationships, their themes differ. He notes that his film focuses on love rather than repression and suggests that cinema is moving beyond traditional alpha male roles. Mescal connects his characters' journey as musicologists seeking to record folk songs post-World War I, indicating a shift in narrative and character representation within the film industry.
I find those comparisons relatively lazy and frustrating, but for the most part I think the relationship I have to the film is born out of the fact that it's a celebration between these men's love and not the repression of their sexuality.
I think maybe in cinema we're moving away from the traditional, alpha, leading male characters. I don't think the film is defining or attempting to redefine masculinity, I think it is being very subjective to the relationship between [their characters] Lionel and David.
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