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Just re-watched Brokeback Mountain

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And my hearts re-broken :-(. I should've known not to re-watch it again. I was in the mood to watch a romantic film, oh well. Anybody else still watches this from time to time and wish they hadn't?
 
I have watched it numerous times but I can't say I have ever been sorry. Rewatching has led me see and feel many different emotions and remembrances. It is really a remarkable film.
 
The last few parts of the movie gets me the most. I never realized how powerful the scene with Ennis and Jack's parents' house was. When he entered Jack's boyhood room and found his shirt within his, man was that rough to watch :-(. And then of course the final scene when he says "Jack, I swear."
 
I was really surprised that I liked this movie the first time I saw it. I expected it to be overblown and overwrought and Hollywood-y and really, it's the exact opposite. Extraodinarily subtle and quietly powerful.
 
Liked it the first time, got bored the 2nd time. :(
 
HATED IT!!!

We should not have to put up with Hollywood making a gay romance movie only to have one of them die in the end and see how they lie to their wives while one is a slut and eventually becomes a statistic.

Oh you mean Hollywood can't make a gay themed movie that ends up being not only a tragedy but a travesty as well?
 
It was pretty depressing, but overall I liked it. I never got a chance to see it until I think last summer. I'd watch it again. I don't know why, but I prefer sad endings over happy ones. It just seems more realistic for things to be shitty. =P
 
I absolutely love the movie and it moved me like no other movie has before.

So much, in fact, that I can't bring myself to watch it again. It's too painful. I've seen it twice and both times killed me.
 
It is indescribable the emotions and thoughts that occurs when watching this movie. It might be Hollywood-esce, it might have been a depressing ending to a gay-themed movie, but it was choreographed, shot and acted so wonderfully.

I really think it did more good than harm to people's perception of gays. I say that only because you have two very famous, straight actors portraying two in-love men; it attracted people to watch the movie and see the troubles gay men went through during that time, and now.
 
theFallenGod said:
HATED IT!!!

We should not have to put up with Hollywood making a gay romance movie only to have one of them die in the end and see how they lie to their wives while one is a slut and eventually becomes a statistic.

Oh you mean Hollywood can't make a gay themed movie that ends up being not only a tragedy but a travesty as well?
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I didnt hate it. But I agree with your sentiments. I have always been so perplexed why so many gay people love it so much. I think many are just excited to see a mainstream Hollywood film with two "hot" leading men play gay characters.
 
Annie Proulx, who wrote the short story the film is based on, has said that the shirt within a shirt was Heath Ledger's idea not hers. She loved it. That it was Heath's makes it doubly heart breaking.
 
I don't think I enjoyed the film as much as others. I recognised the excellent performances, lots of very pretty wide shots but I felt the entire story so detached and distant it was difficult to relate. It didn't really hit the right notes with me.
 
For some reason I just love this movie. I must have watched it at least three times.
 
there may be no answer to this but: as noted above, at the end one of the characters says, "i swear".

what does he swear? to spread the ashes? to live as an openly gay guy? i think i missed something somewhere since i was really flipping in and out of the movie. yeah, it was hard to watch for me.
 
I love this film. And not because it had hot leading men play gay.. It's about love, for me, and that these two men loved each other deeply. And it can't be stressed enough that it takes place at a time when things were very different societally than they are today - hence the unhappy ending....
 
I think people have a tendency to overlook what the movie tells you about the horrors of being gay in the 50s and 60s. A lot of us have no idea how ridiculously hard it was for gay men to be open about their lives. Ennis story about his father taking him and his brother to see a dead gay man's body that had been brutally murdered because he was gay was sickeningly real. His body had been left out in the open and no one cared. That horror for Ennis is his whole backstory and why he was a closet case for his entire life, why he couldn't openly let himself live with Jake. Jake was a bit more free, but still felt the sting when he offered to buy a cowboy a drink after a rodeo event and the guy acted like Jake was the lowest form of life.

There are two places in this film that are so over powering it boggles the mind. The telephone call to Jake's wife after he receives his postcard back with deceased written across it. When she says that Jake wanted his ashes spread on Brokeback Mountain, and Ennis tells her that he and jake herded sheep one summer there, and her face, her eyes realize everything, and she becomes an ice queen to him.

At Jake's family's farm. The father so hostile and mean while the mother tries to skate around the animosity. " I left his room just like he left it. You're welcome to go up and see it if you like." When he enters the room and opens the window, turns back in and looks around and finally finding the shirts- the one that Ennis thought he had lost on Brokeback under jake's shirt was so heart wrenching I almost doubled over. When he takes the shirts back downstairs the mother quickly grabs a paper bag and puts them in it and walks him to the door saying "I hope you'll come visit again.

Ennis' "Jake, I swear," was his own declaration of his great regret.
 
^I understood all this when I watched the movie. It didnt make it any more meaningful for me. It was still just ok. Everyone is affected by movies differently b/c they are so subjective. I know lots of people that had your reaction. And lots of people who were as underwhelmed as me.
 
Meh, not only was the anal sex scene completely offensive, unrealistic and gross, but they just seemed a little too willing to whore around by cheating on their wives. . .not only with each other, but prostitutes.


I think this movie just had a really bad image and concept to begin with.
 
jayxx2 said:
there may be no answer to this but: as noted above, at the end one of the characters says, "i swear".

what does he swear? to spread the ashes? to live as an openly gay guy? i think i missed something somewhere since i was really flipping in and out of the movie. yeah, it was hard to watch for me.
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I took that to be just a figure of speech, meaning lots of emotions were going through his head at that moment.

I live in the South, and it's common for someone who's at a loss for words (usually over something tragic) to say that.

I don't know if it applies to the midwest where this story took place but I just didn't take the words literally.
 
It's a remarkable story and a remarkable movie. I'm a giant Proulx fan and knew the story long before it was filmed. The unhappy nature of things is very typical of Proulx's work, so I never considered it negative about gays in any way.

I don't know why people try to characterize it as a "romance" - it's not. It's a drama, even a tragedy, about a very ugly time. Complaining about it would be like griping about a story about Jews during the holocaust not being happier.

We do have a far greater range of gays in film than ever before. I think that means we can accommodate many stories, including romance, comedy and drama.
 
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