Brokeback Mountain

[puddingcat]

For a film in which nothing happens, it's amazing. And has the distinction of being the third film (that I can think of) to make me cry.

I had the same reaction to it as I did the first time I read "To Kill a Mockingbird"; a mix of horror and desperation and disbelief that people can be so horrible in such an ingrained way that someone who's slightly different doesn't see anything wrong in ghiding that difference. Because of course they'll be lynched if people find out. What else could possibly happen?

I knew that one of them died, but I hadn't read which one; I was convinced all the way through that it would be Ennis. So, when it wasn't, it smacked me across the face a few times & left me open-mouthed. Finding out how he died had me welling up, but what turned me into a pnk-eyed snivelling machine was Jack's parents' reaction. It could all have had a happy ending.

I'm not sure whether I'll buy this when it comes out. It's an incredible film, but there wasn't much of a feelgood factor to it.

Comments

[its-maybe-baby.livejournal.com]

Hi, hope you don't mind a random person just appearing :-)

Annie Proulx wrote the short story (it's about forty pages long). She's a seriously fantastic author who also wrote the Pullitzer prize-winning The Shipping News... I'd recommend both!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Course I don't mind! Did you find me via Amberquinn or Foxypadawan? I don't read their fic any more (and TGT got a bit teenage squee!ish for me) though I still love the cars side of it all :) (mmm, cars...)

[its-maybe-baby.livejournal.com]

I think I found you via Foxy. I've never posted on TGT but I do lurk a bit; I'm one of the teenage squee!ish fangirls, I'm afraid... Although I'm not thirteen and I'm definitely not in love with Richard Hammond for what it's worth! And I think the cars are pretty great too. Now if only my Golf would consider turning into a Porsche 911... *sighs* It's just not going to happen, is it?

Your James icon is adorable :)