how befitting to watch the movie on the same day lee ang won the oscars for best director for his tale of forbidden love between 2 cowboys in the conservative rural countryside of wyoming.
the movie is adapted from a short story by annie proulx. the story unfolds in 1963 where ennis [heath ledger] and jack [jake gyllenhaal] first met to herd sheeps up on brokeback mountain thus beginning the tumultuous relationship which ends on a tragic note 20 years later.
love is a force of nature. and nature sometimes wrecks great upheavals in our lives.
they had fallen in love right from the start without quite realising it. and it was something inexplicable to both as they were swept away helplessly in their longing for each other through the years.
both of them living behind a façade of normal family life while betraying their wives as they continue to meet in the mountains several times a year. something which jack very much wanted to change but ennis was not prepared to.
they were addicted to each other and yet couldn’t quit. such was the hopelessness of their situation. a happily-ever after ending might have been possible if only ennis had the fortitude to leave with jack. but who’s to tell?
*** spoiler ahead ***
the pain that ennis suffered after the death of jack was palpable and poignantly evoked. the loss he felt was especially overwhelming when he had found out that jack had kept the shirt that he had “lost” years ago on brokeback mountain lovingly hung together with jack’s own.
sad.
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