'...yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream...[he] lets a panel of the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.'
Lynne, this passage always brings tears to my eyes...I can't even think about it without crying.
Brokeback is a tragic yet beautiful story. No other movie or work of fiction has touched me so deeply, although
Yossi & Jagger comes close. I think
Brokeback Mountain is a consummate work of art.