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

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen that. I'm not even sure what it's about.

The other two, for me, are Dead Poets Society and Born Free.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

I recommend you watch Cinema Paradiso when you get the opportunity as it's a truly wonderful film, with possibly the greatest Sountrack ever written, courtesy of Ennio Morrecone.

Dead Poet's Society is a great film! I saw it with my brother; there were a bunch of idiots a few rows behind us who were expecting something a la "Good Morning, Vietnam." We were tickled pink with schadenfreude to see that they were way off the mark. *giggles*