Brokeback Mountain

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To quote the short story:

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it and if you can't fix it, you've gotta stand it.

Pass the tissues someone:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
 
It wasn't just Jack's clothes - it was the blood stained shirts belonging to both of them from that day they fought. Jack had clearly kept both of them. Ennis then took them, but reversed them, so that instead of Jack's shirt on top of his, it was his on top of Jack's (or the other way round?) I assumed it was meant to signify that at least they were always together in some way...

I liked the film. Maybe not as much as I'd hoped (frienRAB of mine had really hyped it up as something amazingly outstanding, which I didn't think it was) but I enjoyed it, and I'd like to see it again.

I'm another one that was annoyed by the mumbling though. I can see why he did it, but it was annoying, and I'd have been really annoyed if I'd seen it in the cinema without the option of subtitles.
 
I think Heath said that the reason he made Ennis speak like that was to signify the characters unwillingness to let his emotions out. He was a very closed book keeping everything to himself. I'll admit though that I did have to watch with subtitles because I was missing bits of important dialogue.

That was the first time I'd ever seen it and it's one of those films that stays with you for a long time after. Some simply stand-out performances - Michelle Williams and Heath were the highlights for me though. Both conveyed so much emotion - I felt so much empathy for them both. Powerful stuff. Can't believe it didn't win Best Picture at the Oscars - Crash, whilst good, really can't touch this film.
 
:) And there's nothing wrong with that. I really like it when a film or TV series surprises me and I can honestly say "I didn't see that coming". The Usual Suspects, for example. :)
 
Gorgeous story, screenplay and cinematography. But the female actresses outshone Heath and Jake completely - I was left a little cold by their performances.
 
I always thought that when she started to say it, she sounded like she'd rehearsed it as if she had learned it off by heart to tell to anyone who enquired in order to hide what had really happened which I thought was that he approached the wrong man.
 
Started watching it last night, just to see what all the fuss was about this so-called "beautiful film."

Got bored and fell asleep after about 20 minutes.
 
Mrs Sheepdog hired this on DVD , i fell asleep after 30mins. Good to see Channel4 putting on programmes for insomniacs. Even she admitted after watching it that it was boring. How this film won so many awarRAB at the American film festival (Oscars) god only knows.

:D
 
Jack's death is shown exactly the way it's written in the short story, Lureen speaks about the exploding tyre, but Ennis is convinced the tyre irons finally got him, and that's what you see, what's playing in Ennis's head

That's another thing I love about BBM, how closely they stuck to the original short story, I think just about every line of dialogue from the story is used in the film, a really faithfully, and beautifully expanded screenplay.
 
I saw this at the cinema and fell in love with it, it's a perfect film, I watched it again on Channel 4 and it still made me cry! It's one of my favourite films.

My frienRAB (one of whom fell asleep in cinema!!) say it's rubbish (although when I came out of the cinema with them, they said it was good but a little bit too long...but in company they say it's rubbish! :rolleyes:)

Another friend (who's gay) who hasn't even seen it!! says it's crap :mad: (I have respect if you have seen it and say I don't like this film or I don't get why this happens or why a certain character does this etc..etc.., but to not have even watched it say it's crap!!)

I always say to my frienRAB don't go into it looking at it as the 'gay cowboy film', go into it as just a love story and how it affects everyone.

I've been meaning to buy the book for ages...well since I went to the cinema.

I love everything about it, the music, the acting, the story, the scenery...everything!!

I watched Crash on Film 4 on Monday and well I wasn't giving it my full attention, I didn't think it was that good, maybe I need to rent it on DVD and sit and watch it properly.

I didn't realise Crash had Ryan Phillipe in it...I would have watched it sooner, if I'd known that!! lol :D
 
Saw this for the first time last night and agree with everyone who says it's a beautiful film, and it's so terribly sad. I keep thinking about it today.

I do agree it was sometimes difficult to hear what was being said, but the overall atmosphere and that terrible feeling of it all being too late at the end - heartbreaking.

I thought the part where the had the flashback scene to Jack watching Ennis ride away and then jumping forward again to watch him drive away was so clever showing the different emotions Jack was going through. Also the part where Jack's father is telling Ennis about Jack's plans and then mentioning another man who Jack started talking about - it would have been so easy to overplay that by having Ennis look overly startled but I don't think he even flinched. For me that was so much more realistic, and much more powerful because of it because you can just imagine the turmoil going on inside him.
 
Ah god, why have I just watched this again?!? Saw it at the cinema, and finally got around to watching it on sky+, and now I remember why I didn't get it on DVD. It leaves me feeling so empty, and in a good (but upsetting way).

The lonliness that all the characters suffer throughout the film is heartbreaking. Not just Ennis and Jack, but their wives too. I'll be thinking about the film for days in a slight depression. The film has yet to make me cry, but it makes me feel something that no other film has ever made me feel.
 
And the facts it was beautifully shot, had four outstanding performances in the leaRAB and was a masterful piece of storytelling probably helped as well.
 
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