I Saw Brokeback Mountain on video.

[simpilotswife]

Brokeback really affected me for several days after I saw it. I plan on watching it again on DVD.

 

[auntpolly]

The various reactions to this movie fascinate me. I thought that it was incredibly powerful and one of the best films I have ever seen. .

I agree. I find myself thinking about it alot. I think it was very well made, a great story, and the acting itself was worth the admission. I thought it was a powerful love story, almost a romeo and juliet story because it was the love that could never be. Really heartbreaking.

 

[auntpolly]

I thought his mumbling was PERFECT!!! I know so many country boys who speak just like that. .

You should come to my family reunions -- all my male relatives on my mom's side talk like this! He sounded just like my neighbor growing up!

 

[bubie2.5]

Sorry, but I don't see what's wrong with that comment. He didn't said he didn't care for what happened on 9/11, he just said he didn't cried as much.

People react to traumatic events differently. My father died and I did not shed one single tear, not because I didn't loved him, I just couldn't "react" I was in shock. Later that same week I was at home watching Steel Magnolias and I cried like a baby... for HOURS. Who do you think I think love the most my father or a movie? Tears are not always a clear indicator of what's in your heart.

Lighten up!

 

[auntpolly]

Sorry, but I don't see what's wrong with that comment. He didn't said he didn't care for what happened on 9/11, he just said he didn't cried as much.

People react to traumatic events differently. My father died and I did not shed one single tear, not because I didn't loved him, I just couldn't "react" I was in shock. Later that same week I was at home watching Steel Magnolias and I cried like a baby... for HOURS. Who do you think I think love the most my father or a movie? Tears are not always a clear indicator of what's in your heart.

Lighten up!

I'll be one of those women that "didn't shed a tear" when someone gets murdered and so I'll be accused of the crime. Usually when it's something very traumatic, I'm too in shock to cry. Both DH and I were so tearful in the theater watching Finding Neverland that we had to wait for everyone else in the theater to leave (it was one of those, "let us never speak of this again" moments! )

 

[Deb in IA]

Finally saw this movie this weekend. I thought it was OK. A handful of scenes made me a bit squeamish, but overall, I thought it was well done. And maybe if I had seen it before it was hyped so much, it would have been more powerful, at least to me.


One question: What WAS the last line of dialogue? Ennis' daugher has just left his trailer after telling him she was getting married, and accidently leaves her jacket. He goes after her, but it's too late . . . she's driving down the road. He turns to put it in his closet, and there, on the door, is his shirt hung inside Jack's denim shirt, next to a postcard of Brokeback Mountain. He mumbles something, and shuts the closet door.

What did he say????

I played that section of the DVD about 5 times, and could never understand it. It was the only thing that Ennis said that I couldn't understand.

Does anyone know?

 

[goodeats]

Wasn't it "Jack, I swear"? or maybe "I swear, Jack"?

 

[NMAmy]

I agree. I find myself thinking about it alot. I think it was very well made, a great story, and the acting itself was worth the admission. I thought it was a powerful love story, almost a romeo and juliet story because it was the love that could never be. Really heartbreaking.

I just finally saw it a couple of weeks ago and I think you've got a perfect description when you compare it to Romeo and Juliet. It was heartbreaking and not just for Ennis and Jack, but for everyone in both of their lives. I think it really touched me because the tragedy was so far reaching. And what's really surprised me is how much I come back to this movie in my thinking. Usually, I see a movie and really don't think about it again for awhile. This one, I find myself thinking about a couple of times a day even 2 weeks later.

Oh, and I had no trouble understanding Ennis, but I know several guys in New Mexico that talk like that. Quiet and mumbling. Some of 'em were even cowboys or ranch hands.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Jack, I swear

This is what he said.

 

[Deb in IA]

Thanks Pooh 67_68.

Wonder why the movie ends with that?

"Jack, I swear".

Thoughts?

 

[stinkerbelle]

I saw this movie in the theater, back in january, during the "hype" and I thought it was amazing and powerful. And I pray it's something my brother (a gay man) never has to go through.

On the flip side...I finally saw "Crash" yesterday. I honestly don't see how that edged out over BBM in terms of Oscars. It was a decent movie...to be honest, it didn't fully hold my attention...not like BBM did. BBM stuck with me for a few days after I saw it...I honestly forget most of the story line from Crash that i saw not 24 hours ago.

 

[LukenDC]

"Jack I swear" is the last line of dialogue in the novella too. It allows the reader or viewer to fill in the blanks. I like to think that Ennis is saying "Jack I swear:"

1) I will always love you
2) If I had known what I know now, life would have been different
3) You will be the only true love of my life

The "Jack I swear" line and the cherishing of the shirts demonstrate Ennis' emotional development towards self-acceptance.

On another message board, someone posted a brilliant analysis of the last twenty minutes of the film, comparing it to Virgil's The Aeneid. I have not read it, but apparently at the end of the book Aeneas (Ennis?) sees the ghost of his late lover Dido and exclaims, "I swear by every oath that Hell can muster, I swear I left you against my will. The law of God--the law that sends me now through darkness, bramble, rot, and profound night--unylielding drove me; nor could I have dreamed that in my leaving I would hurt you so."

By the way, the National Gay Lesbian Task Force is recognizing Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain, at their awards dinner next week. I will be there and I am looking forward to seeing her.