The main conflict in the two stories is that the families or countries of the two parties are enemies of each other. Of course, the conflicts between the Palestinian classmates in the movie are more complicated. The not-so-obvious similarity is that the love in the two stories is both dry and rapid. Both young people hurriedly make promises, impulsive rather than cautious. Romeo and Juliet are standard flash marriages, and today few people think that they can become a model of love. When the Chinese teacher in junior high school said that "Romeo and Juliet" is a sad story, but the tragic ending stems from a mishap, not a literary tragedy. Let us imagine that if the messenger did not make a mistake, Romeo and Juliet escaped from Verona and came to Mantua, without family support, how would they live? After the honeymoon period is over, do they have enough mature minds and mutual commitments to manage this relationship? At that time, if you see each other no longer the stars and the moon, or fall in love with others, how will it end? Similarly, in the movie Roy didn't even know who he was before helping Nemo escape. If they arrived in France, could the differences between the two religions in the two countries be well bridged? Roy gave up everything he had in Israel, and Nemo hadn't even got his undergraduate degree. How could the two of them live in France for a long time? It is not uncommon to be defeated vigorously by firewood, rice, oil and salt. Love and marriage are not transactions, and no amount of touching sacrifices and dedication can be exchanged for the guarantee of longevity.
"Good guys are killed by bad guys" is not the greatest tragedy. The martyrs make the Tao themselves. Classical tragedies are still constructive. "A good man is killed by a good man" is the most terrifying, because this is really meaningless. What people are most afraid of is that all meanings will be dispelled, so what to live and what to "do". Therefore, even if "Brokeback Mountain" is sad, the four people in it are actually martyrs. Life is meaningful and love is meaningful. And if the director is deliberately about the similarity between the film and "Romeo and Juliet", the final blank seems to leave hope, but in fact, no matter what kind of ending is terrible:
If you follow the metaphor of "Romeo and Juliet", the moment Roy puts on Nemo's clothes and ran out, Juliet was drinking the bottle of poison that made people suspended, and Romeo in Mantua was sitting there. Nemo on the yacht is still unclear about the sad ending that is coming.
If the two did arrive in France, the previous narrative clearly shows that this love is far from prepared enough to face this escape. Roy only made this plan when it was a critical moment of life and death, and there was no detailed arrangement. After rushing out of the darkness, what is ushered in is not light, but completely meaningless. This kind of ending dissolves meaning even more than the above one.
The mood of the past few days does not allow me to write something that corrects the energy. Moreover, the work has gained my own life after leaving the author. I am not looking for the director’s "real intention", but looking back on the two I just watched. The story, nothing more.
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