Poll: Brokeback Mountain: The Impact

[mike348]

Thinking more about this movie I think loneliless is not the real issue bot LOSS.

I am not sure the author visulised it this way but loss is what nnis is about.  He lost all his family either thru death or marriage. Then he lost his family thru divorce.  Finally and probably the greatest loss was Jack....and not just the physical Jack but all the promise that held for the future.  While alive Jack hld some hope for Ennis but with his death (the aftermath of which Ennis was excluded from... his cremation, and where to place his ashes) Ennis lost the one hope of saying goodbye to his true partner.  What can be said but sad beyond words....

[moremojo]

I have tremendous empathy for the characters (my goodness, I've even fallen in love with Jack and Ennis), but I went with 'Lost Opportunities & Things I Never Accomplished', as the film has made me yearn all the stronger to experience the kind of love that Ennis and Jack knew, however compromised its circumstances were. Some people will never know the kind of bond that the boys were blessed to find in each other, and that thought saddens me quite a bit. That is my hope, to fall in love before I die.

If the 'Empathy for the Characters' option did not exclude tie-ins to my own life, I would have chosen that.

Scott

[David In Indy]

Lost opportunities, definately.

There are several scenes in Brokeback Mountain that nearly smack me  across my face when I see them.  It makes me stop and think: "If I had only said something", "If I had only NOT said that", "If I had only not been so distant"...

A lot of "If I had only's"....

It's serves as a wake up call for me sometimes.

[Kerry]

 Definitely "Reminder of Past Unfulfilled or Problematic Relationships in My Own Life" for me, for reasons I have already explained in several other threads over the years.

"Years"? Did I just say "years"? Yikes, hard to believe I'm coming up to my third anniversary here at BetterMost! Where have those years gone?