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

[Fran]

Qing’s comments on Brokeback Mountain: 

"I guess Annie Proulx touched something in the geography of my soul with this story.  It pains the heart, but in a surprisingly reassuring way.  And even in the sadness that swirls around my eyes, I am grateful to her for that.  And amazed that she could write so tellingly of the human hearts.  To me, the strength of the story lies in its outright honesty.  The story decimates the heart with passion and clarity.

"It is simply the most affecting love story I've ever come to know.  It left me with not just tears, but more importantly, thoughts.  Brokeback Mountain  is about the open space between what you feel and what you try to believe.  It's about the road not taken, the passion not embraced, and the aching thoughts of what it could have been." 

[Front-Ranger]

Jack treated Ennis to a rousing rendition of "Water Walking Jesus."

[Toast]

Ang Lee:
We all have secrets. But we are societal animals, and we need to live with other people and have to fit in. You could easily say that Ennis and Jack live in a lie, but they had to. I don't think they knew any other ways to survive as human beings. It's not like they had other choices.   [Production Notes]

=compliment= Fran
Cool Q.
Someone else has found the "nuance and emotion between the lines"

[Fran]

According to the screenplay's timeline:

On the fourth Thursday in November of 1977, Jack finally stood up to his stud duck of a father-in-law, and Alma finally found the words -- albeit not the nicest ones -- to express her true feelings to Ennis about his "fishing" trips with Jack.

=reply= Toast
Thanks.

[memento]

Alma was unused to standing up to Ennis, but she tackled it by saying that his fishing equipment was still unused.

=aside= Fran
Very clever "T."

[Toast]

On the fourth Thursday in November of 1977, Alma and Ennis were at variance about what she knew and what it meant. 

at variance: def - in a state of difference or disagreement.

[Fran]

The wallcovering in Alma and Monroe's dining room has a floral pattern.

[Dre]

Alma's x-husband's appearance 29 years ago today in 1977 on Thanksgiving made it one to never forget.

=greetings=
Happy
Thanksgiving

=aside= Juliette
Nice to see You again!
Thank You for pmail.

[Toast]

Alma let Ennis know on November 24th, 1977 that she has figured out that it wasn't fish or fishing that he yenned for in the mountains of Wyoming.

def. - Had a strong desire or inclination; yearned.

[Fran]

A comment about Brokeback Mountain at the blogspot Zone of Totality:

"More than all of this, the film is such a fine work of art that it touches us in ways we shall continue to discover.  It is ineffable, beyond mere description.  Like the blinding of Oedipus, it lets us see into recesses of the psyche we could not see otherwise.  It will provoke thought and feelings for many years to come."

-- Jack Jameson