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For Our New Members: Brokeback Mountain Stages of Grief & Acceptance
calenloss:
There's a movement being born out of this movie - I love it!
I'm still in Stage 1 - absorbing every little piece of information I can get about this movie, forcing myself to think about various scenes, stills & words from the film just to experience the pain again because it's a good pain. It makes me feel like a real person. My generation is one ill with apathy & self-concern. This film makes me feel *real* emotions and emotions I can begin to identofy with.
Am I the only one who not only feels like he has lived the life of every one of those characters, but wants to, in a weird way, experience something like that? The love J&E had, though traumatic & ultimately tragic, was the best kind of love. The desperate kind, the one that when it's satisifed is like going to Eden & staying there for just the smallest while. I hope one day to have a memory like the embrace at the campfire, but with the luck to have held onto the one that produced it.
My flatmates will shoot me if I force them to watch yet another depressing montage from youtube or even mention Jake Gyllenhaal's name ever again. Damned shame!
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: calenloss on November 29, 2006, 05:32:41 pm ---Am I the only one who not only feels like he has lived the life of every one of those characters, but wants to, in a weird way, experience something like that? The love J&E had, though traumatic & ultimately tragic, was the best kind of love. The desperate kind, the one that when it's satisifed is like going to Eden & staying there for just the smallest while. I hope one day to have a memory like the embrace at the campfire, but with the luck to have held onto the one that produced it.
My flatmates will shoot me if I force them to watch yet another depressing montage from youtube or even mention Jake Gyllenhaal's name ever again. Damned shame!
--- End quote ---
I think that's true for a lot of us as well. I saw time on Brokeback as back to nature where distractions were few and one was forced into contemplating the company they kept because there was little else around to contemplate. The wide open spaces, the quiet, the work outdoors, and the nights without books or television are often alien to most of us with so many distractions to choose from.
Anytime, even now, I drive into the countryside I immediately feel I am there, even though there aren't any mountains near me. And yes, the emotional intensity of what is laid before us on screen is something I think a lot of us would like to have -- the passion of the moments spent together. Of course, less emphasized were the months and months I'm sure both felt deep loneliness and sadness when they were apart, especially for Jack.
Brown Eyes:
What a great thread. Thanks for highlighting it!
cheers
Amanda
CarlaMom2:
I love this thread! New here and what you said was so true! I thought I was wierd for not being able to get this movie out of my head. I was looking whatever I could find online and then I found you all!! :)
JT:
I love this thread too. What I find weird is that I tend to jump back and forth among those stages, and sometimes I have more than one stages at the same time. This movie is always in my head still, but I tend to accept that. It consumes me but yet I can still function normally, I think.
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