Brokeback Mountain
I happened to watch a movie called Brokeback Mountain a few days ago..
Spoiler/Warning: Its a high-culture gay cowboy movie...
Wonder why I went 2 watch??....damn the Academy Awards, media hype,harsha-gokul etal....
The first hour of the movie was very dreary..(shorter than the usual screen, fellow watchers more keen on Aus v/s RSA tie, intimate scenes b/n jake n heath didn't help the cause ), but in the end, it turned out to be an excellent movie(read the conversation between jake n heath below).
In an extended opening act that the film later relies on, to deliver the crux of its emotional weight, Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal) find work on Brokeback Mountain and meet while shepherding sheep along its photogenic terrain (Rupa kept screaming "wallpapers" all the time). There a romance blossoms and a bond grows between them, though it is forced into the closet once the summer ends and their independent lives shuffle forward (guys made an animated huge sigh of relief in the hall!!).
Marriage and family soil the purity of their relationship although the pull each feels towards the other doesn't dwindle as the years roll by. .. . and ends in a rather anti-climax sorts.....
The last 40 minutes of the movie was worth all the pain of the initial 90 minutes.
There were 2 kinda of audiences that came out of the movie hall.
One group, had the satisfaction of watchin' a good old fashioned love story...(of any 2 ppl!!!) and the other wonderin' "How God..How??", summed up by 2 guy frnds tellin' each other that they have watched their last movie together...:)
As for me Iam a part of both the groups!!!!
This scene alone is worth the admission price...
Ennis Del Mar: I’m gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin’ Twist, an’ I ain’t foolin’. What I don’t know - all them things I don’t know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I mean it.Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I’ll say it just once!Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that! That’s all we got, boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, even if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I’m not you… I can’t make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don’t you? Why don’t you just let me be? It’s because of you that I’m like this! I ain’t got nothing… I ain’t nowhere… Get the fuck off me! I can’t stand being like this no more, Jack.
Jack Twist: God, I wish I knew how to quit you!Ennis Del Mar: Well, why don’t you?
Bottomline: Its not exactly a "cinema" sorta movie....but definitely watchable once...
