Brokeback Mountain - Oscar støvsuger?

Beano>
Han ødelagde bestemt ikke Hulk, han gjorde den til en interessant film IMO :)

dRxL>
Du sagde så efter filmen at du mente den primært handlede om at turde springe ud og gøre det man føler uden at leve i fryg for konsekvenser.
Måske er jeg naiv, men jeg har svært ved at forestille mig at det skulle kunne fungere med andre tematikker end homosexualitet.

3of19>
I der ikke har set den endnu har sådan en utrolig rørende erfaring foran jer, I tror det er løgn.

artwithtea fra IMDb>
As a gay man, an actor, a writer, a poet, an intellectual, a liberal, a romantic, and a film snob, everyone was expecting me to like this movie.
I felt that I was almost "required" to like this movie because of who I am.

This is why I had great reservations about the film.

I had very low expectations going into the cinema. I was expecting a fluff piece that had won over people (and industry voters) who just wanted to be seen as "open-minded." I expected many of the clichés that other movies had about gays, and I expected the film to be watered-down and safe. I also expected the film to be more of a feel-good love story (maybe even borderline porn), and I expected the theme to be one of slight propaganda. I thought that the film would be one of those movies that everyone likes because it's easy to digest the simple message.

I WAS WRONG (thank GOD)!

First,

The movie was shot will such beautiful, sweeping, and almost oil-painting-like majesty. I was breathless. It was slow but steady and contemplative, and it allowed itself time to be atmospheric and developmental. I was in SHOCK. The mythic landscapes reminded me of what my first viewing of Lawrence of Arabia was like. I was completely absorbed by its beauty.

BUT

Literally and figuratively (a combination in allegory), the film becomes grittier and darker and more pathetic and uglier (i.e. the scenes are much less aesthetically pleasing and more shockingly real) as it delves into its loss of innocence (and innocents). The dramatic beauty that I was consumed with was replaced with a stark and hideous reality, but this stark reality of grit and squalor and conflict and quagmire is just as consuming and poetically beautiful to behold. It is grinding and numbing at the same time.

Apart from the aesthetic brilliance of the film, the characters were more complex and tortured than I even considered conceiving for this film. They are mythic and beyond archetypal. At the same time, they defy convention- fascinating.

The story is beautiful and tragic and inspiring both blatantly and subtly with such a balance of palpability and irony and subtlety that I was even more surprised (surprised that it was an American film, surprised that it's been embraced by the mainstream, surprised that the industry voters are honoring it, surprised that it was made at all). I was surprised and elated. Maybe more people are beginning to understand (and remember) what good films are. I love this film, and I'm proud of Hollywood for recognizing it.

The greatest theme of this film is not exclusively gay. It is about going to a place that is beyond redemption. It is about time lost and dreams shattered. It is about realizing what matters most. It is about living life to the fullest and not missing out on what could have been. It is about not missing opportunities and accepting the truth about life- there is little time. So, do something that is important. Do what you love. Create. Think. Exist. Carpe Diem.

And I received this film and its theme like a punch in the gut. I couldn't help thinking- dwelling upon- "What could I have done? What have I missed out on? Why do I not feel fulfilled?"

This film is one that will stay with audiences- lingering and personal.

One doesn't simply watch this film. One finishes what the film started. It's now a piece of the fabric of its audience. I have seen very few films- BEYOND THAT- very few works of art that make me ask the question- "Who am I?"
This film makes its audience ask that question, and I venture to guess that most people who saw it took a hard look at themselves in the mirror later.

This film is beyond entertaining, romantic, spiritual, intellectual, thought-provoking. It is beyond art. It is something tangible- something physical- something to touch and to feel. It is beyond thought and reason, and if there is a God, then surely anyone can feel his touch through this film.

My thoughts can be summed up by the words of another poster on this site:

"Brokeback Mountain is not staggering in its impact on you because of superficial concern for characters, but for how it somehow seduces you into confronting vicariously your own thwarted dreams, missed opportunities, thinly covered disappointments - even shame of your own unhappiness; so too your first loves, your great loves, the memory of love. One is 'ambushed' by one's own phantoms and fondest memories in potent and distilled form. It's not so much the movie that won't seem to leave us as our own soul's joys, sorrows and hopes, surfaced and in need of the light of day."

What we need to do is read the text of our own life now, albeit as dramatically surfaced and illuminated for us by a film. We need to re-enter into the adventure of responsible liberty and walk resolutely and courageously into this storm that has come to visit us. We cannot out-source this profound task to film makers or anyone else, no matter how they may have inspired us. It is for us now to finish the story.



Brokeback Mountain defines what good film is, and it reminds me of why I love movies and why I'm an actor. It is a human story that personifies the human condition, and it makes me even MORE proud of who I am.

For those who don't want to see the movie becaue gay sex makes them uncomfortable- The movie is NOT gratuitous in any way, and there are NO explicit scenes.

Ang Lee>
It wasn't until I was editing the movie that I realized that the most powerful thing in the movie wasn't there--it's about what could have been. It's not a heroic story about seeing something, going out and getting it. It's about being afraid to get it.