Brokeback Mountain…book/movie review
The love positively erupts…
Book/movie review:
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
Director: Ang Lee
Won Oscars for Directing, Music, and Writing/Screenplay
Based on the short story by Annie Proulx, screenplay by Larry McMurtry
Here’s the big bad spoiler: it’s a love story. It has cowboys. It has scenic mountains. It has pickup trucks and horses and big empty spaces. What could be more all-American?
Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry make good chemistry in Brokeback Mountain. Ennis and Jack slowly realize they can boil.
The love positively erupts. It’s a stunning revelation, there is gentleness later, and disappointment that can’t be contained. There is real love, you cannot be in doubt about that, and there are the hobbling constraints that Jack and Ennis cannot overcome.
In the end, the world outside their world won’t let them be different, and happy.
In the end, too many women are victims. Jack and Ennis can’t give up on each other, but they can abandon the women who love them.
In the end, there is a bloodied shirt that is a delicate memento linking Ennis to Jack, a painfully inadequate manifestation of the many wounds they bore, and the hurts they inflicted on each other.
In the end, there is Brokeback Mountain,
there is a big empty space where love should be,
after too many fragile opportunities have already passed by.
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