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optom3:
--- Quote from: Artiste on March 28, 2008, 10:59:06 pm ---Thanks optom!
Ennis and Jack never returned to Brokeback?
Why?
It seems like Brokeback in the film?
Hugs!
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My take is that Brokeback was seen as perfect by both of them.They had no ties,it was pefect.It would have been difficult to recapture that same spirit again.I think there was an unspoken agreement to keep it like that.A perfect memory,unsulied by wives,age etc.I had a pefect place too and we never went back.We could not bear it not being that perfect again.It was better left as a memory.Where nothing could change it.
Just curious,do you have a perfect place.You don't need to tell.I just hope you do.
Everyone should have one perfect moment,to keep them warm and smiling when things get tough.
Monika:
I think AP kept them away from Brokback because Brokeback is supposed to be something unreachable. Brokeback is where they both want to go back to but never can, and I guess not letting them go back there, even physically is the authors way of highlightning that fact.
Artiste:
Thanks byffymon, thanks optom!!
To me, if they would have returned to Brokeback Mountain, I think that Ennis would have lived forever after with Jack! Maybe... in time?
What do you think??
Au revoir,
hugs!
Mandy21:
--- Quote from: optom3 on March 28, 2008, 11:45:37 pm ---My take is that Brokeback was seen as perfect by both of them.They had no ties,it was pefect.It would have been difficult to recapture that same spirit again.I think there was an unspoken agreement to keep it like that.A perfect memory,unsulied by wives,age etc.I had a pefect place too and we never went back.We could not bear it not being that perfect again.It was better left as a memory.Where nothing could change it.
Just curious,do you have a perfect place.You don't need to tell.I just hope you do.
Everyone should have one perfect moment,to keep them warm and smiling when things get tough.
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Fiona, it's beautiful and interesting that you would say these words. I had the question posed to me recently about favorite moments with people, and I spent a huge amount of time thinking of every single person I ever loved and my most favorite moment with them. I could come up with all of them except for my two greatest male loves in my life, Bobby, whom I've loved from first moment and every moment since, for the last 12 years, and Michael, my Irish ex-fiance, whom I've known for the last 6. When I started asking myself about my favorite moments with those two men, I came up with several thousand about Bobby, and a couple thousand about Michael.
My favorite moments with people are so magical, I've been so blessed.
If I was forced to pick one moment in my entire lifetime that was perfect, it would be the moment I was standing on a cliff in Topanga Canyon, California, and Bobby was standing behind me. It was most definitely quite a drop down, would have been the death of me, and I'm terrified of heights, and yet I let this married man that I love stand right behind me, with the opportunity to rid himself of me. But of course, what he did instead, was wrap his arms around me, and hold me safe and still.
That was many years ago, and many years we've loved since.
If I said the word, he'd be mine.
Just haven't said the word.
But I do know, forever and always, that he will hold me safe and still.
optom3:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on April 03, 2008, 12:11:03 am ---Fiona, it's beautiful and interesting that you would say these words. I had the question posed to me recently about favorite moments with people, and I spent a huge amount of time thinking of every single person I ever loved and my most favorite moment with them. I could come up with all of them except for my two greatest male loves in my life, Bobby, whom I've loved from first moment and every moment since, for the last 12 years, and Michael, my Irish ex-fiance, whom I've known for the last 6. When I started asking myself about my favorite moments with those two men, I came up with several thousand about Bobby, and a couple thousand about Michael.
My favorite moments with people are so magical, I've been so blessed.
If I was forced to pick one moment in my entire lifetime that was perfect, it would be the moment I was standing on a cliff in Topanga Canyon, California, and Bobby was standing behind me. It was most definitely quite a drop down, would have been the death of me, and I'm terrified of heights, and yet I let this married man that I love stand right behind me, with the opportunity to rid himself of me. But of course, what he did instead, was wrap his arms around me, and hold me safe and still.
That was many years ago, and many years we've loved since.
If I said the word, he'd be mine.
Just haven't said the word.
But I do know, forever and always, that he will hold me safe and still.
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Your magic moment sounds so like mine.I never had the courage though to say the one word.Someting I regret to this day.It seemed the right thing to do at the time.Now I am just full of regrets.I guess that is why BBM got to me so badly,i just felt like watching Ennis I was watching myself.No happy ending for him or me.
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