Brokeback
Mountain.
Hello, hello bobbseys
How are you my readers? I'm so sorry for the delay but I’m writing you since the
commodity of my bed due to I’ve been a little bit ill, nothing to worry too
much about it because I’m strong enough. After this week when San
Valentine’s day has taken place, I’ve been thinking about love and its weird
aspects; like the one of make you fall in love with someone of your own sex when
you’ve always been sexually attracted to the opposite genre, how in the world
can this happen? Therefore I’ve decided to talk about Heath Ledger’s gay movie Brokeback
Mountain winner of three Academy Awards, to try to explain you and myself
these crazy things that love has.
Why I watched it?
I admired Ledger’s short career, and I still do, and I
hadn’t seen this movie I don’t know why, but in the moment that I saw Rendition
and fall over heels in love with Jake Gyllenhaal I reprimanded me myself
for not watching it before. I got attached to Jake, so one day I found Brokeback
Mountain on the movie’s section of a shop and I bought it. And a few weeks
ago I took advance of me being alone at home in the morning to saw the film and
thanks to that I could cry my eyes out
without having anybody around me to see my tears.
Original title: Brokeback Mountain.
Duration: 133 min.
Director: Ang Lee.
Screenwriter: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
Country: EE.UU.
Genre: romance drama.Homosexuality.
Year: 2005.
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini,
Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Randy Quaid.
Summary:
one summer, one herd, one job, one love but two men. A ranch hand and a rodeo’s
cowboy meet in 1963 to work together protecting the heard of a ranch chef
during the summer. When the summer ends both of them have built a big
relationship. Dennis del Mar (Ledger) tries to convince himself that his love
affair was just because they were alone without women and they got attracted to
each other whereas Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) knows that what they had wasn’t just
lust but that love was floating around them.
The most difficult definition for a word must be the
one that defines the abstract concept of love because who of you could give me an
accurate definition of what is it? Or easier, what do you feel when you’re in
love? It’s true that we can say that there are some biological aspects; these
which are related to the physical and rational part of love, but can we say
that this is love or it will be more exact to say that is just lust? And what
is love but lust mixed with feelings such as possession? Can we say that the love
that we feel for our family is the same that the one that we feel towards our
couple but without the sexual attraction? Is love equal to all the people that
have the pleasure or the inconvenient to feel it? There’re so many questions
and so many things unknown floating on every one’s mind.
Last week my teacher of literal analysis sent us as
homework read and analyze “The Clod and the Pebble” by William Blake and with
that poem I’ll give you an example of why love can’t be defined.
"Love seeketh not itself to
please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell's
despair."
So
sung a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
"Love seeketh only Self to
please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven's despite."
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The Clod symbolized an innocent person who has just
fall in love for the first time and hasn’t suffered for it yet. And the Pebble
is someone who has experienced the love and was rejected or cheated on,
something that has made him/her suffer. That tell us that everybody has its own
version of love and we’re the owners of our own definition and nobody can tell
us that our impression towards this feeling is wrong. In this movie the society
tries to teach the leading characters how they have to love and to whom they
have to feel love, and although they can’t teach that society that the ways in which
you love aren’t bad but just yours, they show us something similar to the poem.
The love version of the society includes a man and a woman and isn’t really
necessary to build a solid marriage; and the one of Denis and Jack which isn’t led
by any conventions. They don’t say anything about love they express it which in
my opinion nowadays is hard to find a couple that says all the time “I love you”
and that in every time they do say it they expressing it too.
Love implies fear and happiness, hopes and deceptions,
tears and smiles, joy and sadness. It has a bad and a good part. Denis is the
guy who is afraid of what is growing between them because he knows
that the society doesn’t approve it, due to he saw when he was young two men
killed by the people’s hands. These men lived together in a farm and everyone
suspected that they had a relationship therefore they ended that “illicit”
affair killing them in a horrid way. Denis’ father brought him and his brother
to see it and to show them that, that is what happened when you disobey the
rules. Denis has always like women and he’s going to marry, he did married
despite all, with a girl when he met Jack, this one wants to fight for their happiness
and doesn’t mind what people could say about them but Denis thinks that what
happened in the campsite was an act of lust or rather he wants to think so.
One of the best scenes for me is the one in which their
work is over, Jack is going to his dad’s place to help him with the ranch and
Denis is going to marry her fiancée Alma. Jack’s face express sadness and the
feelings that he’s experimenting can be read so good thanks to his expression
and the way in which he’s delaying his departure. One the other hand there’s
Denis who tries to not care if he sees Jack again but the tension of his face
says other thing.
About Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
For me they’re the best actors of their generation,
truly. They’re good by themselves but together they’re perfect. The chemistry
they had is something that doesn’t happen usually between actors, they’re the
film itself. Heath reminded me to Clint Eastwood in this movie and it’s pretty impressive.
It seems that Jake’s character is the sentimental one but he’s the one who has
the courage to fight for their love and the hard one who is Heath’s character
is also the coward. Heath’s coolness against Jake’s warmness Look at this
extract and see by yourselves that they’re fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZzcRtmXXY
The surprise?
Michelle Wiliams was so gigantic in this movie. She
hadn’t a big role, just a supporting one, and even that she shines as Alma. She’s
the first person that finds out about Denis and Jack romance, she doesn’t say
anything during all the time she was married with Denis though we see how the
hatred is running through her veins versus the love that she still feel for
Denis. The beginning of his real marriage with Heath and the beginning of her
career was awesome.
And other not-so surprising actress was the delicious Anne
Hathaway.
The worst.
I found the rhythm of the movie so slow that sometimes
you can get lost in the plot as a result of the boredom.
The best.
The performances, of course, and may I say that the
director has a BIG role too. Ang Lee directs with his heart, he leads this
movie based on a true story with a sentiment that is needed to expose the right
feelings and to move the public.
Mark: 7.
Remember
that this is my opinion, so it isn’t necessary that it concurs with yours.
That’s
all!
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