When I watched "Brokeback Mountain" for the first time, I was not nineteen years old. I couldn't speak English. There were many western accents in the film, and the subtitle translation of the DVD was not good. I didn't understand it.
I watched it more than a decade later, and it turned out to be the man in the play.
Back then, I felt the slow pace was a bit boring. I re-watched it today and found that it was because the timing of the first time was wrong.
The tempo of Ang Lee's film will not slow down much. At that time, it was actually a problem of young age and subtitle translation. I don't know what they are talking about, naturally I feel bored.
The second time I saw it today after more than ten years, I caught some details that I missed in the past:
At the first parting, Jack looked at Heath Ledger in the rearview mirror of the car and took a deep breath to hold back the cry. Heath Ledger (Ennis) turned around and cried in the alley. Vomit;
The way they got along with their wives, who had to hide their identities in those days (because they suppressed their desires and have nowhere to vent their anger, some violence like to attack their wives after turning off the lights, and because they can’t bear the cowardly and cowardly finding a strong and rich second-generation career Type of wife's acceptance);
Jack, who is more active in same-sex relationships, is more cowardly in society. The wealthy old man said that his son was not like him and he didn't care;
And every time Ennis violently clashes with others, it is actually the result of certain repression and the rage that is unable to change the status quo;
Sao Lang’s rumors of Jack’s homosexuality have long been notorious, so even if you want to make friends, you’ll be misunderstood, wanting to get involved, and being pointed out (foreshadowing the tragedy)...
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There is also the reunion scene that can be classified as a performance textbook. The superb acting skills of the two actors and the role of Ennis's wife Michel Williams are undoubtedly revealed in this scene:
In the age when people of the same sex had no mobile phones and had to conceal their identities, the two had a wife and children four years later and met again.
In this scene, the two people were tortured by four years of longing as if they went crazy.
Ennis, who had always been silent and passive, grabbed the collar and kissed Jack vigorously, and Jack raised the deer eyes with an unbelievable expression, then took Ennis's face and forced him to the wall to kiss back. At this time, Ennis's wife Alma happened to open the door and saw this scene from upstairs. She was shocked, then gently closed the door, turned and returned to the living room, shaking her body, almost unable to stand on the chair with her hand. At this moment, the two men walked into the house. Her husband introduced Jack the "fisherman" to her and she turned around, still in shock, staring at Jack in a daze, seemingly calm, but in fact, her chest was constantly rising and falling.
The three actors were only twenty-five or sixteen years old at that time, and they were already acting so well!
Michelle Williams' acting skills are also reflected in the scene when her husband resolutely packed up his baggage to go "fishing in the mountains" with the old lover after the old lover came back.
She longed for the eyes from her husband. The moment her husband seized the door, she buried her face in the child's neck and sobbed depressively, trembling all over, acting like a co-wife who had been deceived for four years.
Although the character played by Heath Ledger, Ennis, is more restrained and difficult to interpret, the eyes of Jack Jelenenhal are the reason why people are hooked into this story. Especially after the two were old and before the last dispute between them, he looked at his lover from sadness to anger (still angry and his lover refused to abandon everything and go with him many years ago). All the classic lines came from him. In the mouth:
truth is...sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.
there is never enough time,never enough...
You are too much for me Ennis, I wish I knew how to quit you.
It is worth mentioning that the entire story spans twenty years, but several of the leading actors are only 25 or 26 years old, and Anne Hathaway is only 23 years old, and she has played the lives of several people without breaking the rules.
Back then, I felt that Annie acted the most ordinary, but today I found out that it was because I was too young to be able to show acting skills at all.
Her character was the least brilliant, and the longest line came from the scene in which Ennis was notified of Jack's death in the final call, but it was just a simple scene, and she supported it:
In the beginning, he just lied mechanically. The husband who had cheated on him was beaten to death by homophobics. The fabricated cause of death was repeated countless times and he had no feelings at all;
Later, he casually talked about Brokeback Mountain, saying that her husband wanted his ashes to be scattered there. When she guessed that the end of the phone was her husband’s lover before his death, she discovered the meaning of Brokeback Mountain. At this moment, her nose opened and her eyes filled with tears. Finally, she pretended to be calm and told Ennis that he should go see Jack’s parents. The ashes will come out to fulfill her husband's last wish. The close-up shot never left her face during the whole process. Her tears come just as they say.
This time I watched the last 30 minutes of "Brokeback Mountain", and my tears almost never stopped. Since the last time the two of them had a dispute, they had no choice but to cry because they couldn't see each other often, and I also cried together;
He failed to take away his ashes but his mother asked him to take away the bloody shirt and asked him to come and see it often;
Finally, his daughter is getting married. He opened the closet, stroked the shirt and the postcard from Brokeback Mountain, solemnly buttoned the shirt with the second button, and then said with tears like a wedding vow.
"Jack, I swear..."
Ang Lee's work has a shocking power, and this power will last forever, and it can still hit people's hearts over time.
The greatness of this movie comes from the scheduling of Li An's genius (I still can’t understand how a Chinese made this movie with a strong western style so authentic), whether it is the detailed display of moisturizing things, or the four. The actor's moving performance, even just a simple soundtrack with guitar strums, everything is just right and perfect.
I remember this movie is a door for many ordinary people to understand the sexual minorities.
I remember the first time I watched it when I was a teenager. I saw the shock of their first night scene in the tent, but I was not disgusted. Experienced and faced parting with lover.
Everything seems to be destined.
I understand Jack's almost crazy complaint too well:
"Before we had the opportunity to be together, you don’t want to. The number of times we have met in the past 20 years is only a handful... We have nothing but this damn Brokeback Mountain! I am different from you, I can’t rely on it for a year like this. Seeing my face alive once or twice...I hope I know how to quit you."
Some people question the origin of these two people’s feelings,
I also questioned it.
I didn’t know until I grew up,
The white head is as new as ever before.
Love that begins with brief relationships and congenial sex is also love.
Love is possession,
Love is longing,
Love is the obsession of returning to the place where our love began,
Love is Brokeback Mountain.
(I remember I told her countless times that if I died in this country, burned me, and scattered the ashes on Telok Chempadak. That was my 27th birthday, she drove five hours in the car to celebrate my birthday. I stayed on the beach for less than a day, and drove back for another five hours. That’s how we dated that year. That’s where I really fell in love with her, and that’s my Brokeback Mountain.
So I didn't understand Brokeback Mountain until today. )
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