If I were to rank my least favorite movies with an 8 or higher score, "Brokeback Mountain" would definitely be in the top three. I don't like the struggle, pain, and tangle in the running account-like narrative, and I don't like the ending that seems like a reincarnation of fate, which is so real that it's heartbreaking.
(1) Their love
The love between Jack and Ennis is somewhat fatalistic. They have spent most of their lives trying to walk on the road of normal life, but because they fell in love with such a person and had some tremors of life experience, their fate logic always seemed awkward. It's like when you push a cart with bad pulleys, it always wants to go sideways, but you insist on making it go the right way, because it's a smooth road, so you keep trying to correct the direction of the cart, and finally you get caught. Enough for the damn cart, and too tired to push it anymore, let go and it headed in the direction it wanted to go without looking back.
And what's even more ridiculous is that you thought it was going to be a dead end, but when you followed the past, you found out that it was a new way, and you thought it was a smooth road, and I don't know when it has come to an end , that smooth road is called "worldly".
Most of the tragedies of Ennis and Jack's life come from this. Bearing in mind the tragic warnings of the same-sex pioneers, continuing the path of the ancestors, thinking that life can be fulfilled, but in the end, there is nothing and nothing. Dare to say love, even the ashes of the lover can't be retrieved.
The person I love the most can't finally become the most special person in my life. Few people know that he has loved him, and few people know that he still loves him.
(2) their women
There are three women in this story. Jack's wife Lorraine, Ennis' ex-wife Alma, and the bartender he later met.
Loyalty and love for one person is destined to mean cruelty and indifference to another. Jack and Ennis are both responsible to their families, but they are not loyal to their legal partners. There is a scene in the movie where Ennis and Alma have a great marital harmony. Ennis got on top, so he turned his wife over and turned his back on him. I don't know if it was because he didn't want to see his wife's face, or because there might be a backlash between men. Compare more.
The three women in this story more or less understand their situation. Alma had seen everything directly, she knew it, but she had endured for so many years, confirming over and over again, trying over and over again, and finally when the marriage came to an end, Jack, who got the news, came to find Ennis. At that time, his face was full of laughter, and even his footsteps were cheerful and joyful, how ironic; but when Alma finally confronted Ennis, except to threaten each other, Ennis could do nothing, and he panicked like a man. so.
The second woman, Jake's wife Lorraine, who Jake calls "the most beautiful girl in the state", is a strong woman who is always on the abacus, a busy person who even communicates with her husband on the phone. A woman who refused to cry even when Jack died. But it was probably because of the smug and playful smile on her lips when Jack lashed out at her father at the Thanksgiving party; and because of the unconcealed disappointment on her face when Jack invited other women to dance And because of the tears in her eyes when I got the call from Ennis, I was convinced that she had always loved him, and she had always guessed what happened, it was just the last call from Ennis, who gave She has a definite answer.
The third woman, the bartender with whom Ennis later dated. She was a passionate and affectionate girl. The only downside was that she had bad eyesight and fell in love with Ennis. When the girl finally bent over as a newcomer and came across Ennis to look for him, she had a bit of an aura to find fault with her, but in the end she was full of grievances and pain.
When watching it, I will think about a question: For these women who occupy an important position in their lives, these two men who love each other so much, have they really loved these women?
If love does not distinguish between gender, age and national boundaries, then conversely, marriage derailment should not produce any preferential treatment or sympathy because of the special object of derailment. The three women, especially Lorraine and Alma, did not find the true meaning of marital happiness in the man of their choice. Every woman in marriage hopes that she is the cinnabar mole on the man's heart, the only one who can't give up no matter how noisy it is, but unfortunately, they are not.
I don't want to say that the times created their tragedy, or personal choice caused such a tragedy, but in any case, from this point of view, I can't accept these two behaviors, after all, they made two innocent women become " Wife" —they raised offspring for them, but perhaps they couldn't be prouder that their children had the blood of such a man in them.
(3) Their later
Jack is dead and Ennis is old with the picture of Brokeback Mountain and Jack's clothes hanging in the cupboard.
More than 20 years have passed like this. From their first meeting in Brokeback Mountain, to their four-year separation, to their reunion, and to their worry-free reunion in the peak snow mountain every year, time has passed in such a hurry.
After watching the film, I just want to say that I am very fortunate to live in such an era. Although the mainstream thinking of the current society still does not discuss the same issue, at least many people have seen and paid attention to it. In fact, I personally think that this film is a very powerful counterattack against those who oppose homosexuality - the fate of the reincarnation and the scale of the tragedy, both demonstrate a truth:
Whether you allow it or not, you should be the same or you will be the same. You are not the same, but maybe due to your resistance and repression (such as those bastards who brutally kill the same in the film), the coverage of the tragedy will expand (for example, the same wife). Therefore, it is better to obediently recognize the reality, recognize the unreasonable and unprincipled characteristics of love, and let people love and choose freely!
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