The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

According to Annie Proulx's prologue:  "the wind strikes the trailer like a load of dirt coming off a dump truck, eases, dies," leavimg bare moments of silence.

[Fran]

An excerpt from a BBM review by Bruce Newman at celebritywonder.com:

Ledger, who until now seemed like an actor destined to be remembered for his Vanity Fair covers more than his acting, strips Ennis down emotionally until there is nothing left but hurt. He physicalizes Ennis' inability to express, or even understand, what is happening to him; as the movie goes on, his body contracts like a muscle, until it -- like his world -- begins to collapse on itself.

"If you can't fix it,'' Ennis tells Jack, "you gotta stand it.''

[memento]

Jack and Ennis felt like outsiders who could only be themselves when they were with each other.

[Toast]

Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. .....

.... the Western that puts the poke in cowpoke.

Rolling Stone

[Fran]

An excerpt from Ephiphany on Brokeback  by Dr. David Jenkins:

Over the next twenty years, Ennis and Jack married strong women, raised children, worked rodeos and ranches, sold farm machinery, and after two decades of occasional “fishing trips”  near Brokeback to rekindle their fire, the story comes to a tragic halt.  The scene shifts from the verdant mountains to the desolate flatlands.  The years of emotional and physical isolation, the internalized homophobia, the denial of self, and the denial of love converge like rivers flooding the grief-stricken plains.  All that we see and feel is desolation.

[Meryl]

Cassie found out that when it came to making conversation,  Ennis, like a sphinx, kept his mouth shut more often than not.

[Toast]

Ennis ended their drowsy trance by saying, “Time to hit the hay, cowboy. I got a go. Come on, you’re sleepin on your feet like a horse,” and gave Jack a shake, a push, and went off in the darkness.

[southendmd]

At the reunion, Ennis is as giddy as a schoolboy, but is unknowingly causing pain to Alma. 

[Fran]

"With discretion but unmistakable vérité the still-present reality of gay bashing slips into the film like an unwanted guest, adding another layer of candour where some lesser minds would opt down saccharine way." 

-- S. James Wegg, James Wegg Review

cinéma vérité = a style of documentary filmmaking that stresses unbiased realism 

[Toast]

Scene from 2003 screenplay:
Jack and Ennis ride through the mountains, like Randolph Scott and Joel McCrae in Ride The High Country, only more life-worn, more weather-beaten.