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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: coyoteman on January 07, 2016, 07:50:46 pm ---I am a gay man, originally from a ranching community in Colorado's northern mountains (my grandfather was the rancher).
I read Annie's story a few years prior to the film when it was passed to me by a friend who thought I'd find it particularly poignant. I later saw the film with my lover of fifteen years (a man raised on a farm in eastern Colorado). The story and the film grabbed me and shook me, scared the hell out of me. While both beautifully portrayed an environment and activities that were familiar, they challenged the tenuous constructs which sheltered my life and my love.
The advent of the tenth anniversary of the film has led me to reexamine the story and film and take a deep dive through the closets and homophobia that have both sheltered and damaged my life. I consider BBM one of the best films ever made and the singular thing which compels me to analyze my life and the choices I have made - a process that is ongoing with a ravenous hunger and energy.
The many thoughts and musings on this site are a part of that deep-dive examination. And the fact that so much thought and musing about the meaning of every detail of this story continues ten years after it appeared in theatres and eighteen years after a simple story was published in a magazine speaks volumes about the quality of art and the ongoing relevance of it's subject.
Thanks Bettermost.
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Welcome, coyoteman. :)
Front-Ranger:
Welcome coyoteman! There used to be a coyoteman here a long time ago, but I assume you are a new coyoteman. Want a cuppa coffee, don't ya? Piece a cherry cake?
CellarDweller:
Welcome to the forum!
BBM_victim:
Hi there!
I strongly feel i need a support group after this movie, so here i am!
I knew Brokeback Mountain from it's initial release, had it at home, but somehow had not come to watch it all these years. Now, finally, came to it 2 weeks ago - with horrendous consequences of not being able to think of anything else anymore!!! I mean, i am a wife and a mother, working full time - i've got stuff to do, you know!! How can i get over this movie?? Hope maybe to do so by talking it all out!
I just can relate to so much in this movie... To Ennis' character - have known such people (including my own dad to some extent [not gay, but very repressed-feelings / everything-must-be-proper-hard-working-type]), to Jack's character = totally me (romantic-never-giving-up-type)! To the difficult situations they face there, how the characters are trapped within themselves...
I am extremely heartbroken over Jack. The way he ages and gets damaged more and more and how his light vanishes from his eyes :'(. Sure, Ennis is suffering, too, but he is the "stronger" one, who can "stand it" longer, better.
While feeling very sad especially when watching the lake scene followed by dozy embrace and Jack's face 20 years later (*stab-in-the-heart*!), it is quite funny that i felt so much love after this movie... Love and passion and hope - and LOVE again! It's really funny how it works... I come home and hug my daughter and kiss my husband and am so full of loving feelings!... Quite an experience, this movie... ::)
That's how come, uh. . .
me end up here
:)
CellarDweller:
Welcome to the forum!
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