Brokeback Mountain: A Mountain Between Love

What a great movie! It was a big loss when it did not win an Oscar for Best Picture. Just like Citizen Kane. The performances of Jake Gyllenhaal and late actor Heath Ledger had brought to this movie the most realistic of the struggles that homosexual couples had to suffer and to bear it alone for all those years. But all of those struggles could not stop the love between them. I really love this movie. Brokeback in this movie represented something had been lost for a long time that could not never be taken back. Jack and Ennis had a lovely and romantic time here where they fell in love and that was the best time of their lives. But because of the prejudices, they could not continue this love and they were forced to live the life of a straight man with all the lies, all the pretending they had to do. They were not happy at all. Another meaning of Brokeback to me could be understood as something imperfective. Their loves could not be perfect even though Ennis had left his wife after she found out he was gay and marriage of Jack was struggling too. But life sometimes was so unfair. Their dreams of being with each other in the Brokeback Mountain were stopped and crumbled after Jack died. Brokeback is both about loss and imperfective which gay people had been through.

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This movie took place with very beautiful views of Wyoming mountains. It was like a metaphor to me. Wyoming’s mountains are so high and we feel like it can reach the sky. It is like dreams, desires, freedoms that everyone who is different from others wants to reach. In this movie, it is like the dreams of Jack and Ennis which they wanted to be with each other forever but they could never reach. On the other hand, the flat is the reality where Jack and Ennis had to live two different fake lives. They were unhappy and they felt uncomfortable. The flat is also the dream of dying and being buried with all the grief.

The name "Brokeback" stands for all that occurs between the two men in the summer and all they have lost from that point forward. They always refer back to "Brokeback" instead of certain occasions or emotion. Jack says years after the fact that "what we got now is Brokeback Mountain," he utilizes the expression as shorthand for acts, feelings, and considerations that, since he imparts them to Ennis, he doesn't need to express it any further.

Brokeback Mountain additionally remains as a conspicuous difference to the flatlands of Wyoming in a echo of the duality among Jack and Ennis and life and demise. In the postcard commemoration that Ennis builds to his dead girlfriend, the mountain symbolizes as a headstone under which the men's relationship should at long last be covered. In the event that the high pinnacle of Brokeback Mountain, pushing into the sky, summons the longing to transcend and get away from one's life, at that point the flatland of Wyoming speaks to all that is dull and frantic. Ennis and Jack are both raised on the plain, yet while Jack takes off for Texas to live with his affluent lady, Ennis is caught by financial condition and duty. Proulx utilizes the thing plain only multiple times. To start with, the storyteller portrays how, from the uncommon situation of being on the mountain, the plain is the place where "standard issues" happen.

The last three "fields" are utilized related to Jack's demise, an occasion that renders Ennis "normal" again. At the point when Lureen affirms Jack's passing, Ennis feels the "enormous bitterness of the northern fields" turning over him. Afterward, heading to the Twist home, he noticed the neglected farms dissipated over the plain. At last, leaving Lightning Flat, he takes note of the graveyard where Jack will be covered, calling it "the lamenting plain." Ennis finds an old shirt of Jack's, smudged with Ennis' blood, layered over a shirt of Ennis's, from their Brokeback days. Jack's dad says he's placing his child's remains in the family plot.

Ennis purchases a postcard of Brokeback and tacks it to his trailer divider; he balances the two shirts underneath it on a nail. Around this time, Jack starts to show up in Ennis' dreams.The shirts were the only thing Ennis had left of his fallen darling, and the shirt scene represents the men's consuming affection for each other, just as how they would never be together.

Jack’s death was the most desperate moment in this movie. After all, they could not have the love that they ever wanted and Ennis now had to live alone without his only lover. But the shirts here with me are the symbol of Jack. Ennis placed the shirts presentable and respect in order to honor him and tell that Jack was still here with him. The soul of him would live forever inside Ennis’ heart and never let go even though Jack was dead. There was only one person who Ennis really loved and only one person who Jack really loved. If in that life they could not be together, maybe in another life they would be together without any barriers. That was the true love and I really love this movie and hope to see it again.