For Your (Re)Consideration: Brokeback Mountain Still Echoes With the Sound of Love and Loss
When Jack and Ennis first have sex (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, respectively) in Ang Lee's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain, their communion is both combative and animalistic; though it's not particularly romantic, it is undeniably passionate. They tangle with each other like odd-shaped magnets, succumbing to their mutual attraction while simultaneously resisting their own desires. The year is 1963 on a mountain range in secluded Big Sky country outside Signal, Wyoming. Despite the vastness of the open range, despite the distinct lack of peering eyes in any direction, the lovers find ways to hide — from the strictness of American masculinity, from each other, from themselves. For years after that night, they find each other again and again, but only in the valleys, as far away as they can get from judgment.
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