Brokeback Mountain (2005) (Widescreen Edition)
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The facts: It is based on a short story into film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx.
Synopsis: A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheep-herding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond–by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the story of two young men–a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy–who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection that provides a testament to the endurance and power of love.
Review: I’m not so unbelievably sorry that I didn’t buy a ticket then but I did watch it now. It was a beautiful movie and I like that it wasn’t something that I thought it was. I love the relationship between the two men even though I knew it wasn’t going to end up happy (rule: look for happy) and I believed each man’s reasons for choosing to meet the way they did on the mountain.
Even when I understood that seeing the man’s body in the ditch because he was gay, believing that his father might had something to do with it and it would just as deadly for him to be with Jack, still Heath’s character (Ennis) really pissed me off at times because he didn’t take a chance with Jake’s character (Jack). Even when he got divorced and time passed by, they still had a better chance to be together and he never took it, just never did. I felt so bad for Jack because he really loved him to take Ennis this way with the secret meetings.
I find it ridiculously sad that Ennis, who I knew loved Jack didn’t realized the depth of Jack’s love for him until he saw the shirt he thought he lost nearly twenty years ago. It is like at the end when Ennis visits Jack’s parents and you knew they knew about Jack and you as the audience know they would had a good/hard life together on the parent’s farm.
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