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My own experience
YaadPyar:
--- Quote from: vkm91941 on June 06, 2006, 06:12:03 am ---Issac if you have any more personal messages to share like this one PLEASE do. It is always good to read and share others experiences with this lovely film. I could not agree with you more about the quality of the performances.
Welcome, I hope you stay a while and let us get to know you better. You too gattaca
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Ditto everything! Welcome. More please...
redilirvi:
I guess I was lucky, in that I didn't know much about the film before I saw it at the beginning of January. I hadn't read any reviews and the only reason I went to see it was that a friend of mine wanted to go. Also, I had never seen Heath or Jake in anything before, so I had nothing to compare their Brokeback performances to.
I was totally engrossed in the film, right from the first guitar note. I must admit I thought the first tent scene was a little abrupt (and I'm a gay man), but on subsequent viewings I noticed the subtle indications of their growing fondness for and attraction to each other which made the first tent scene a believable progression for them.
Like many others have stated, I became totally involved with Ennis and Jack as real people, not just as characters in a movie. I can't describe the devastation I felt when I found out about Jack's fate. Ennis's discovery in Jack's bedroom had me breathing through my mouth so I wouldn't sob out loud. The final scene in his trailer pushed me over the edge.
I obtained a copy of the short story, but I delayed reading it until after I saw the movie a second time. When I finally read the story, it had just as great an impact on me as the movie. I've never had a piece of fiction tear me apart as that story has.
I then went through months of obsessing over the movie, always bringing the topic of conversations with friends and family around to Brokeback. I would spend hours on IMDB, I always kept tissues next to the computer because tears flowed so easily.
Jack and Ennis became friends of mine and, dare I say it, I fell in love with them. I definitely fell in love with their love and with the movie.
The passion is starting to subside, but I think I will always be a Brokeaholic. I hope I never lose the connection I have to this movie.
Jack
ednbarby:
That's lovely, Jack. And eerie, too, in that you just described my experience with it down to the tiniest detail. I, too, saw it once for the first time in early January, bought the story and then deliberately saw it again before reading the story. Then the story devastated me all over again. I think all of us share the experience of thinking of Ennis and Jack as real, as friends, of loving them, of feeling our own loss when we learn of what's happened to Jack as if he was a longtime friend of ours, too, and of loving their love for each other.
Welcome to the asylum. Actually, as the movies often depict, I happen to think the sanest people going are all right here.
YaadPyar:
--- Quote from: Noguchi_LM on June 08, 2006, 04:34:56 pm ---
Jack and Ennis became friends of mine and, dare I say it, I fell in love with them. I definitely fell in love with their love and with the movie.
The passion is starting to subside, but I think I will always be a Brokeaholic. I hope I never lose the connection I have to this movie.
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Wonderful. Thank you.
redilirvi:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 08, 2006, 04:42:59 pm ---Welcome to the asylum. Actually, as the movies often depict, I happen to think the sanest people going are all right here.
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Barb (I feel I know you because I've read so many of your postings on IMDB),
I used to worry about my obsession with Brokeback, but I told myself and friends that "it's my new hobby." Ha! Who was I trying to fool?
I'm now able to limit my Brokeback "allotment" and have actually watched quite a few other movies in the past month or so. Of course, I tend toward movies featuring Heath and Jake. ;D
Jack
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