Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is one of the most honest depictions of emotion in cinema.  Love is clearly omnipresent throughout the film, but its portrayal of fear is arguably even more poignant. Perhaps if Ennis had never had his father show him that old man, and had never had that trauma and fear of hatred instilled in him from birth, his life would have been very different. As it stands, it is that fear that haunts him throughout his entire life, even manifesting in his assumption that Jack was lynched. In the final scene of Ennis and his daughter, I like to believe he was a good enough father that Alma Jr escaped the trauma that Ennis had already had instilled at her age. I hope she can choose love over fear.