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[jeedjijy]

Brokeback Mountain is a drama / love movie about homosexual cowboy. It�s the first�s Hollywood homosexual cowboy movie.

Ennis (Ledger) and Jack's (Gyllenhaal) 20-year romance begins when they are hired in the summer of 1963 by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid), a hard-boiled rancher, to work as sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain in the Wyoming high country, the two cowboys develop a boozy friendship by the campfire.

After an intimate fling, the two are torn apart. Ennis marries his girlfriend, Alma (Michelle Williams), and they have two daughters. Jack meets and marries Lureen (Anne Hathaway), a Texan rodeo queen, with whom he has a son, and joins her father's farm-equipment business. Four years pass before Jack, who is living in Texas, sends a postcard to Ennis, who has settled in Wyoming, saying he will be in the area and would like to visit. The instant they set eyes on each other, their suspended passion erupts again. So begins a sporadic and tormented affair in which the two meet once or twice a year for fishing trips on which no fish are caught. Jack urges that they forsake their marriages and set up a ranch together. But Ennis, haunted by a disturbing childhood memory of homophobic violence, fights the passion he believes Jack unnaturally stirred within him.

In conclusion, I think the film isn� t without its travelogue moments, and it does go on a bit longer than it has the story to. That story, as expanded here, is least interesting when Ennis and Jack reunite, over and over, at their beloved fishing spot. "Brokeback Mountain" needs those scenes, but it comes alive when Ennis and Jack are living the lives to which they cannot confine themselves, struggling for a sense of place.


Kusuma Buranapate
ID : 48214509
Dept. Multimedia KMUTT
LNG 103 Group 5

[asterix]

Hollywood is currently on a mission to have homosexuality accepted by everybody else.
This is perhaps because homosexuals are over - represented in the film community.

[jeedjijy]

I think it's a good movie.

[Jiradech]

I think this movie is interesting & good story. I don't know about a homosexual movie but this is a first time for me.

[ChoCoLaTe-g9h]

that's sooo cool
it's very useful 4 me
thanks a lot

[@@@KiTtY@@@]

I like this movie because it show the story about homosexual love that a lot of people don't agree especially in the south of the United State. I will not amazed if it produced in France, Spain or Korea. But Ang Li (the director of the movie) dare to produced it in Hollywood. This is Hollywood movie that people around the world like to see. If you see it, you will like Jack and Ennis love story as I like. It is truly love. I think everyone want to recieve truly love from someone like them's love.

[godjee]

i think this movie is very interesting. but i don't like this type of ovie.

[LinGPoP]

The movie is interesting. It show about true love and freedom in love