Brokeback Mountain personal response
Title: Brokeback Mountain
Director: Ang Lee
Type of text: Visual/oral text
Date Completed: 27/2/2014
Whilst watching the film Brokeback Mountain, I became frustrated at the main characters, Jack and Ennis. This frustration was because of an evident idea in the film that I agree strongly with, ‘sexuality is not a choice.’ This idea made me realise how lucky I am to have been born in an era where society is much more accepting of individuality than in the past. And I felt frustrated because the two men believed the only way to be accepted in society was to be something they weren’t, which was heterosexual.
In the summer of 1963 two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they find work sheep-herding for the summer on Brokeback Mountain. The two quickly form a friendship that eventually develops into something more. They become mentally and physically involved with one another. I believe the director’s purpose of this film was to open the viewer’s eyes, showing them that you cannot choose who fall in love with.
The idea that ‘sexuality is not a choice’ is developed in the film because the two men have a perfectly fine life, they both had a loving wife and a family, but they were happiest when together. A close up of Ennis’ face shows him staring out of the window, trying to pass time by flicking his lighter whilst waiting for Jack to arrive at his house. You can see in his expression that he is excited; his eyes keep looking around as if he is searching for Jack. This shot told the audience how much Ennis cared for and missed Jack, because you saw different a side of Ennis, a side where he was excited and nervous, the audience never saw this side of him when he was with his wife. I was happy when I saw Ennis not being able to control his emotions towards Jack, it gave me faith that true love and happiness does exist. But I also felt extremely sorry the men’s wife’s, I felt as though they were using their wife’s as a shield from reality, as
Director: Ang Lee
Type of text: Visual/oral text
Date Completed: 27/2/2014
Whilst watching the film Brokeback Mountain, I became frustrated at the main characters, Jack and Ennis. This frustration was because of an evident idea in the film that I agree strongly with, ‘sexuality is not a choice.’ This idea made me realise how lucky I am to have been born in an era where society is much more accepting of individuality than in the past. And I felt frustrated because the two men believed the only way to be accepted in society was to be something they weren’t, which was heterosexual.
In the summer of 1963 two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they find work sheep-herding for the summer on Brokeback Mountain. The two quickly form a friendship that eventually develops into something more. They become mentally and physically involved with one another. I believe the director’s purpose of this film was to open the viewer’s eyes, showing them that you cannot choose who fall in love with.
The idea that ‘sexuality is not a choice’ is developed in the film because the two men have a perfectly fine life, they both had a loving wife and a family, but they were happiest when together. A close up of Ennis’ face shows him staring out of the window, trying to pass time by flicking his lighter whilst waiting for Jack to arrive at his house. You can see in his expression that he is excited; his eyes keep looking around as if he is searching for Jack. This shot told the audience how much Ennis cared for and missed Jack, because you saw different a side of Ennis, a side where he was excited and nervous, the audience never saw this side of him when he was with his wife. I was happy when I saw Ennis not being able to control his emotions towards Jack, it gave me faith that true love and happiness does exist. But I also felt extremely sorry the men’s wife’s, I felt as though they were using their wife’s as a shield from reality, as