Brokeback Mountain

[deleted15807]

The film was literally robbed of Oscar for Best Picture by the vastly inferior Crash.

 

[D_Rosalind Mussell]

There were a lot of scenes that moved me, but the shirt at the end is a guaranteed tearjerker for me. I will have to read that short story now, thanks for mentioning it!

 

[qazplm#1]

The film was literally robbed of Oscar for Best Picture by the vastly inferior Crash.

Actually, I don't have it in my top ten of 2005. Ditto for "Crash."

 

[teutonicos]

I found this on youtube,it says hey don´t show the video part in the US.How come ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwIhQQJSAg
Also one of the best renditions of this song from Korngold´s "Die tote Stadt",sung by Renee Fleming.

 

[deleted15807]

Actually, I don't have it in my top ten of 2005. Ditto for "Crash."

Nevertheless among the Oscar nominees for Best Picture it was the best of the lot.

 

[Parkerdude2003]

It was the movie that inspired me to come out, just because I didn't want to end up alone like Ennis.

One of the best movies of all time in my opinion.

 

[D_Bela Boxwidener]

This movie was a love story. period. Doesn't matter the gender of the two involved. Everyone that has a beating heart, has felt that emotion.

 

[SouthernSpunk]

I found this on youtube,it says hey don´t show the video part in the US.How come ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwIhQQJSAg
Also one of the best renditions of this song from Korngold´s "Die tote Stadt",sung by Renee Fleming.

Blocked in US:

"This video contains content from NBC Universal,
who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
​

 

[NCbear]

This movie was a love story. period. Doesn't matter the gender of the two involved. Everyone that has a beating heart, has felt that emotion.

True--but what bothered me about Brokeback Mountain is that it shows a largely dysfunctional relationship that ends with an unexplained death, similar to the pre-Stonewall representations of gay male relationships.

I thought we'd gotten past that barrier and could show gay men who were falling in love and who were supported by their community--a love story that ended well, too, instead of ending with some implied punishment for daring to love another person of the same gender. That's why I like Big Eden much better than Brokeback Mountain.

NCbear (who knows that Big Eden can be found at Big Eden (2000) - IMDb)

 

[maneater716]

i very rarely post but on this i had to!!!! Someone please give me my lpsg christmas wish and show the scene where heath is squating down and washing up????!!!!!!????? please please please!!!!lol:tongue:

 

[mitchymo]

A straight friend of mine has nicked my copy. He has taken it off to the army with him. He refuses to give it back. He says it reminds him of me and his countryboy upbringing.

 

[thee1]

True--but what bothered me about Brokeback Mountain is that it shows a largely dysfunctional relationship that ends with an unexplained death, similar to the pre-Stonewall representations of gay male relationships.

I thought we'd gotten past that barrier and could show gay men who were falling in love and who were supported by their community--a love story that ended well, too, instead of ending with some implied punishment for daring to love another person of the same gender. That's why I like Big Eden much better than Brokeback Mountain.

NCbear (who knows that Big Eden can be found at Big Eden (2000) - IMDb)

I LOVED Big Eden when I caught it on TV some months back! I was pleasantly surprised that it showed gay men in such a different light. Everyone in the characters' surroundings were supportive of them.

 

[Rikter8]

Bareback Mountain was so much better!!

No... no it wasn't. It was poorly made, and just...blah. The guys weren't even hot in it.

I cannot watch Brokeback Mountain. Too much depressing sights to see, and a grim reminder of how life is for many gay men and women.

 

[B_Hung Jon]

I would say that the whole film moved me beyond words. I don't think it's about gay guys who don't get to live a happy life together. For me it's about how deeply profound and life-altering a love between two people can be. "Love is a force of nature". And personally, BBM enabled me to understand my own feelings for my close male friend. It got me in touch with how vulnerable and open guys can be toward each other, and that loving is the most natural thing in the world. Heath Ledger is so beautiful in the film. I've never seen any other guy in a movie express those feelings before in such an honest way.

 

[NCbear]

The vulnerability, the inarticulate nature of their love, the utter hopelessness they felt, the societal constraints--yep, dead on. Even the beauty of nature tugs at my heart and makes me want to wax sentimental about the movie.

But it was ultimately a doomed love story, not just a love story--more like The Front Runner or one of those 1970s books about leukemia patients than a happy, confident, gay couple in love and destined to have a happily-ever-after future.

NCbear (who's thinking, "Hell, even Latter Days has a happy ending!" . . . but who understands the need to make much of Brokeback Mountain's evident ability to touch straight heartstrings and make even many homophobic straight people empathize with some of our issues . . . .)

 

[rickygNOLA]

definitely the shirt scene.

 

[superbot]

Over-hyped film!

 

[Brusselssprout]

i liked the scene the most when they saw each other again after a long time
and the wife sees it all happening