"Brokeback Mountain" makes people deeply feel the delicate, mysterious, and unknown love that takes place deep in the heart of human beings. Like all the excellent love movies before, "Brokeback Mountain" only makes it happen to two men. It's only on the body. This film is a milestone because it is the first Hollywood work to tear off the distorted mask of same-sex love. The film is not about sex, but about love. The love of the place. The emotions expressed in the film are so complicated that the audience cannot say that it is a "Western", or even that it is a gay movie.
From the background of the original story to all elements of the film in "Brokeback Mountain", cowboys are the backbone. U.S. audiences' various evaluations of "Brokeback Mountain" are also mainly about cowboys. Although few contemporary Americans have truly experienced cowboy life, the world has equated cowboys with the United States since the last century. Cowboys belong to the United States, and the United States does indeed play cowboys on the world stage from many perspectives. Cowboys are majestic, arrogant, exuding in the wind, defying power, and easy to fight against injustices. These images can not only be found in politics and various signs. But "Brokeback Mountain" tells the same-sex love between cowboys and cowboys, showing their long-yang idiosyncrasies without mercy.
Although "Brokeback Mountain" is a cowboy western movie, director Ang Lee has never used any American western movies as a reference. The realistic presentation of life in the American West and the leisurely and peaceful composition of the picture in the film also created a new shooting technique for Western films. "Brokeback Mountain" is so comfortable, every picture can be used as a postcard. Ennis goes to the playground with his family. The picture behind the fireworks is simply the male version of "He is Lonely Than Fireworks". Control and calmness make this film. The film reached the extreme of aesthetics.
The film describes the entanglement of same-sex relationships vividly, but Ang Lee believes that this film is not a call for gay rights, nor is it a conservative observation of homosexuality. He is a dramatist himself, and the bottom line for Ang Lee is a love story. It can be seen that what Ang Lee values is precisely a universal value concept that can be vigorously promoted and is foolproof: love can transcend cultural differences. When love comes, there is no difference between love of the opposite sex and love of the same sex.
