Brokeback Mountain

I’ve decided that I’m only going to be writing serious reviews. I’m not a writer, so please bare with me. Brokeback mountain is such a great film, I believe it to be extremely progressive. I am only a measly 17 years old, & even in todays date I find the queer community and it’s oppression is not so easily talked about so for a movie made in 2005 to so heavily touch on the love and the hate that comes with being queer means a lot to the community. It depicts two men whom you’d never in a million years imagine could ever come to fall in love and yet they do, it showed, to me, that when you really truly fall in love it should be pure and under no circumstances should it come from a place other than your own need & want. Jacks absolute longing for Ennis to be happy and blatant bravery in admitting that for it being the 60s’ going as far as wanting to live with him and grow old conveys an extremely clear message of how powerful his love was. Ennis on the contrast, while still in love with Jack, shows obvious fear. He in no world imagined he’d be ever be queer and did everything he could to hide it by marrying and having children (as did Jack but I feel the way they went about it was totally different.). It’s kind of funny how the ending of the movie really shows how maybe one lived in his honest self and the other did not for good reason and it obviously worked out for him. By this point you can tell now that Ennis shared the same longing Jack did, the way he holds his jacket so tightly and stares at that picture of brokeback mountain he most likely regretted everything for the rest of his life. he was just scared as he should have been because towards queer people it’s been nothing but hate and violence for so long and he knew that, but Jacks love was too strong for fear.