Having been someone who loves watching movies, spending hours and hours doing so, movie watching was my favorite past time. It was sometimes horror, sometimes comedy, and romantic also. I just loved watching movies of various types and themes, and one day I just got a chance to watch a very popular gay themed romantic movie which I always longed to watch.
Myself being gay, always wanted to watch this movie, BrokeBack Mountain, which has been appreciated around the world and honored by various awards including the Academy Awards. It was very difficult for me to get this movie from a DVD store, as it wasn't available everywhere, and even if it was, it would be a very awkward situation to get it, especially, here in India, where we live in such a veiled society. Therefore, I just got an idea of watching BrokeBack Mountain, and the option was downloading this gay themed movie online. Though it took a long time, it was finally done.
Myself being gay, always wanted to watch this movie, BrokeBack Mountain, which has been appreciated around the world and honored by various awards including the Academy Awards. It was very difficult for me to get this movie from a DVD store, as it wasn't available everywhere, and even if it was, it would be a very awkward situation to get it, especially, here in India, where we live in such a veiled society. Therefore, I just got an idea of watching BrokeBack Mountain, and the option was downloading this gay themed movie online. Though it took a long time, it was finally done.
I was really very interested to watch this movie and excited too. As I watched this movie, I found that it was something that was very unique, different and close to my life. BrokeBack Mountain is a romantic gay movie based on a short story. It is a story based upon two gay men, who happens to meet in a fictionalBrokeBack Mountain in Wyoming in the West Coast of America. BrokeBack Mountain is based between the times 1953 to 1973. The two gay men, Ennis which is played by Heath Ledger and Jack which is played by Jake Gyllenhaal, so happens to meet in the Brokeback mountian where they meet while working as a caretaker of sheep.
In this movie, Brokeback Mountain, these two men, some how gets physically involved during their times in the Brokeback Mountain, and then gets emotionally attached. As a fact of being gay, this movie portrays the difficulties these characters have to accept this relationship to themselves too and the environment they are subjected to, which do not allow them to live freely with each other. This results in quarrels and fights between the two and after their tenure of the job, both Ennis and Jake move along with their own lives, leaving the job, though both feel a lot of pain and grief while departing.
As a part of life and society, though being gay, both of them get married to a girl, and Ennis has two kids too. After four years, Ennis and Jake meet, and they get so excited that both of them kiss each other hard as soon as they meet. Ennis's wife unluckily sees this happening. Ennis and Jake then starts meeting each other time to time. Here, Jake convinces Ennis to leave everything and they both live together with each other, but with the boundaries of the society, Ennis refuses. This way, both of them get to meet each other, time to time, though infrequently. Ennis gets a divorce from his wife. This way, 20 years passes by and Ennis and Jake are still deeply in love with each other still cannot come out nor stay with each other together. Both of them are deeply pressurized by the rules of society, life and family. A day comes when both of them are emotionally weak and talk about the last 20 years they've lived with each other and the difficulties they had to face and then quarrel also.
After that day, they do not meet together for sometime. Ennis happens to call Jake one day and the call is received by Jake's wife, played by Anna Hathaway. He recieves a news that shatters him. Jake was dead. He had died in an accident and was cremated. Jake had the last wish of having his ashes scattered in theBrokeback Mountain, though his wife had no idea where Brokeback Mountain was and was finding out where it was.
Ennis travels to meet Jake's mother and father. While taking a look at Jake's childhood bedroom, he finds his old shirt, which he had thought he had lost at the Brokeback Mountain, in Jake's room which Jake used to wear. He smells the shirt and gets the smell of Jake.
Ennis travels to meet Jake's mother and father. While taking a look at Jake's childhood bedroom, he finds his old shirt, which he had thought he had lost at the Brokeback Mountain, in Jake's room which Jake used to wear. He smells the shirt and gets the smell of Jake.
The movie ends with the scene, of Ennis being all alone and then gets a visit by his daughter. She's invites her father to her wedding and they happily celebrate the news and she then returns back. Then, Ennis opens his closet, in the door of which he hung, Jake's shirt and a postcard of Brokeback Mountain, and remembers Jake, his love and misses him.
I was moved into tears by the end of this movie. What I really liked about this movie was the depiction of homosexual relationship in a positive manner. It was well portrayed and was had nothing that depicted sex or prostitution as such. This movie has been globally appreciated by all people and after watching this movie, I really felt so.
Well, whether you're gay or straight, give it a try to watch this movie. You will really appreciate it.
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