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Lynne:
--- Quote from: calenloss on November 27, 2006, 01:43:57 am ---I know this will have a profound effect on my life, I'm so glad I saw it.
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Welcome to BetterMost, Andrew - I'm very glad you found us. It sounds as if you are one of the lucky people who were in the right frame of mind, place in your life, whatever... to receive the complex and disturbing and beautiful messages of this movie. That means you'll fit in around here just fine :). All of us were touched by it, in different ways, and for different reasons, but with an intensity that is phenomenal.
As a med student, you might appreciate Leslie's clinical treatise on this phenomenon known as Brokeback Fever. Here's the link:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=492.0
I saw in another post that you were going to watch again before you had to return the movie to the rental store. And I know I might be being a tad presumptuous, but...word on the street here is that you may as well buy it because you're going to need to be watching it regularly for quite some time to come. ::) 8) ::)
Again, Welcome!!
Lynne
Kelda:
welcome andrew... I'm sure this place will feel like home shortly - we're a friendly bunch!
Samrim:
Hello Andrew,
I'm glad you have joined our Brokie Club :) your fierce response to this miraculous film mirrors mine,and everyone else who loved it.
I'm elderly, and have never had a relationship. I was young in the sixties, when the UK law was changed to make us gays 'legal, at least in private! Why in private for G*d's sake, hets can hold hands, touch in public, but not gay men. ??? Here in North Lincolnshire all I could do was keep my head down and hope no one noticed me! I never spoke consciously to another gay until my late twenties.
I was never an Ennis to look at, but his situation mirrored mine, that's why I love the film, everything about it, and especially our boys!
Welcome aboard.
Best Wishes
Sam :)
brokebackjack:
Hi Andrew--good to have you here!
We have all been there.........
calenloss:
Glad to be here. The website's been a good outlet - shame it isn't as fiery as it seems to have been in the early days.
Ready some of the stories on this thread in particular has been a very moving experience - Samrim in particular, I can't even begin to express how much your tale moved me. I hope that some things never come to late to you.
I guess I should tell mine - I've spent the past few days trying to work out why I was so taken with the film. Aside from being so well portrayed, I guess it's a result of my first love - we were young, I fell in love fast and it ended very very badly. I went through so much pain afterwards, I came out totally different - stronger, yes but cold & unable to open up. No relationship since has worked particularly well, I've become cold with men and yet try-hard - conversely, I am desperate to feel loved again. BBM has made me realise I can't live without that feeling, I know I can let myself by more vunerable. More painful route, but the amazing portrayal of the purity of the boys' bond has made me realise how far I have to go to get it from myself. I recently found out that he is still suffering because of our relationship, but I can't go back to him. I know that much - but I have heard how his life is now and I don't want that to happen to me. I wont screw up a good thing like that, like Ennis.
I have a...tempestuous and fragile relationship with someone who used to be my best friend. We're rarely "on" and now I'm beginning to fear that he might be the right one - I don't want to miss the chance again. Sadly, it's impossible right now. One day, maybe.
I love how BBM has forced me painfully to look at the parallels in my life that I've been trying to ignore. I know where things are going wrong. Hopefully it can teach me how to fix it.
I hope everyone else does too.
Thank you again for the welcomes.
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