i definitely feel like one of the last people on earth to have seen brokeback mountain
i also feel like i didn't rate it as highly as a lot of people do i think the message is
wonderful i think the characters are incredible but the narrative itself is really poor not a
lot happens and one can argue that maybe that's so we can focus on the characters
but i still feel like they could have made the key plot points a bit more interesting maybe giving us
something a little bit more fascinating in between the scenes where the characters are developing
or having pivotal moments i'm not going to go into too much detail about that because i don't want to
spoil anything and i certainly won't give away any any spoilers it was released in 2005 it is a
you know a neil western now i love westerns but i do like my westerns to be westerns
this is set in the 60s and i didn't i don't have a problem with that that's absolutely fine of course
but it doesn't have the vibes of a western that i would have wanted so straight away from me
personally that's something about it that i didn't enjoy but obviously because the main
theme is homosexuality between these two cowboys if they'd set it further back in time a lot of
the reception would have been different a lot of the characters actions and attitudes
would have been different as well so i can completely understand why that decision was made
and based on the costumes and the language i feel like you know they've captured the 60s well
enough that it seems believable and realistic angli directing it has done a beautiful job
we have some gorgeous views of and from brokeback mountain some great camera work
during the more intimate scenes the directing and the visual quality of it absolutely brilliant
so the narrative itself if you're unaware it's basically about this well forbidden homosexual
relationship between two cowboys uh jack played by jake gyllenhaal and ennis played
by heath ledger and obviously they realized that they can't be together because of all of
the repercussions that would come out of that and they both go off and live separate lives but they
each kind of keep returning to one another's lives in one way or another and there's this kind of
will they ever be able to be together is it society that's stopping them from being together
does one of them is one of them holding back more than the other and i'm not going to say
who kind of instigates the relationship but i find the actions to be very believable um
maybe a bit too presumptuous how do i explain this without giving spoilers okay so basically
one of them makes a move on the other person and i feel like it's presumptuous that they assume that
the other person wanted that um you see it a lot with heterosexual relationships in films of course
but with homosexual relationships it's a bit more presumptuous on their part especially given the
reception and the attitudes at the time i hope that makes sense uh i can't really explain it
without spoiling it i'm just going to pretend that you understand what i'm saying um and and
the way in which that relationship is portrayed when ennis and jack are together i think it's
it's beautiful to watch um it's very sensitively done i feel like it's very realistically done
and i feel like the character's actions and how do i say the morning after i feel like those scenes
are exceptionally well done you can certainly detect this feeling of guilt and i don't want
to say remorse but of worry and and anxiety almost in some of the characters eyes i'm seeing some of
because one of them feels it more than the other i don't want to kind of give away too much about
the different characters personalities and the way in which they approach their relationship
because it certainly has a fundamental um role in the development of the characters
and it is the characters that make this wonderful the performances are fantastic
as i said the narrative itself is kind of dull what happens when they kind of go and have their
separate ways than their own families and are well maybe not necessarily in denial but are
trying to put their relationship behind them because it's the 60s um what actually happens
and the scenes with their families when they're not together and they're just on their own i
find it really dull and i just feel like they could have made it a bit more gripping without
making it seem far-fetched or almost farcical with how ridiculous some of it would become
it could have made it a little bit more dramatic or emotional
without detracting from the characters themselves in the relationship itself but aside from that i
did find it quite enjoyable it's not the most western of westerns if that makes sense it's um
you know i would say that it's a drama a romantic drama first and foremost
and then a western the western element is almost the backdrop rather than being the driving genre
which is not a problem at all it's not it's not something that i found to be a fault with the film
i liked it quite pleased i've seen it um do i think it lives up to the hype yes for a lot of
reasons for the portrayal of the characters for you know the technical aspects the editing the
directing the soundtrack i think all of that's beautiful i think the narrative could have been
better um basically if you take out the scenes where the two men are together
and you have the scenes where they're living separate lives or they're doing other things
apart from towards the end which i won't speak about but i will say
wow i was really moved by how this ended um everything else is kind of filler
to me some of it's important but i just feel like it could have been a bit more interesting and um
could have added some of the emotional level but ultimately not a bad film definitely almost lives
up to the hype for me it's one that i would say is a film you have to watch before you die
it took me a while to see it but yep definitely better late than never