Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Brokeback Mountain Open Forum
Finally...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 06, 2006, 10:33:45 pm ---Why did it affect us like this, and not others?.....
Did someone pick us out so we would all meet up and become friends, did someone pick us out, because we would understand and maybe do something about the bigotry in our society.....did someone pick us out, because we were in need of something like this, in our life......???????
I believe that I am special, because I was picked out, I believe that everyone else on this board is special too, and I believe, that there is a reason, why it was US.
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I know this analogy will sound ridiculous, but back in the late '70s, when I liked reading Stephen King novels, my favorite was "The Stand," which is about a biological-warfare disease getting loose from a research lab and quickly spreading around and killing most of the population -- except for a small diverse group of people from around the United States, the protagonists of the novel, who happen to be immune to the disease. After everyone else is dead, those chosen people all start having the same vision that leads them to Las Vegas, and while most of them are good, a few of them are evil, and there's this apocalyptic showdown ...
OK, so I don't think any of us are evil, and I have no particular desire to go to Vegas and engage in Armageddon. But in a way, it seems a little like that. They way all those millions of people saw the movie, but only WE saw its greatness ...
But even that sounds kind of freaky, I guess. :-\
silkncense:
--- Quote ---And I am only disappointed when people I 'think' will, don't. But we know so little of others' emotional make-ups.
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I have been disappointed too. I told everyone that came into my line of sight (in dentist offices, in grocery lines, at work - I know, a bit much) that it was the greatest film ever, that I couldn't sleep, that it makes you think about your life...
And then the reactions came in from friends /co-workers. They'd watched it, but they didn't see it!
So, I sought affirmation elsewhere...IMDb, PT & here ;D . And I assume that's what brought others here - so, it is like that story - we have all been lead to a place togeather. And maybe it is because of a need - something from our lives. As I told one of the younger guys at work, maybe you just haven't had any fear or regret yet.
serious crayons:
I started a thread on this a while back. While there were a lot of interesting ideas, I don't think any of them explained it once and for all.
There are a lot of great people here, but aside from our feelings about the movie/story I haven't noticed anything we have in common that we don't also have in common with some of the people I know who liked BBM but aren't obsessive about it. So it's still a complete mystery to me.
???
Daphne7661:
On another message board, I had used the words "chosen ones" and got a bit blasted by some as being pompous, or possibly referring to myself and others as being "chosen" in a religious type of way, but I truly believe that, of all the people who have seen this movie, a group of us feel as though we "got it", hence Bettermost and all the other websites and message boards.
Honestly, I don't watch all that many movies. I've never even heard of a "message board" before. I came onto the Internet in search of some solace and to find out if I was going crazy...
Now I know I'm not, and feel safe and secure in the knowledge that I am a "Brokie" or "Brokaholic" or whatever title fits anyone who is obssessed with the story of Ennis and Jack, as I am, and we all are...
Love to All....
ednbarby:
I've been profoundly moved by movies before. But not to the extent that any of the characters have stayed with me for more than a few days afterwards. More that they've made me examine my life and I've gone on to do some more of that without giving much more thought to the characters themselves. But well before the Gyllenhaalism set in I was so devastated by these characters (really, at and after my second viewing is when it started) that I couldn't think about their fates without fighting back tears. And I couldn't stop thinking about their fates. I fell in love with both of them. I still am and always will be. I'll be driving by the big signs for "Boca Del Mar" and "Del Mar Avenue" and the "Del Mar Plaza" years from now and I won't be able to help but smile. And I'll say things I've said for years like "I'm a sick twist" and "straight up with a twist" years from now and smile, too. No matter what comes and goes, these characters will always be in my heart. And that's never happened to me with any fictional character before and I doubt it ever will again. Jesus H., nothing like this.
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