Brokeback Mountain

Last Tuesday I watched the movie "Brokeback Mountain" with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. I was totally surprised how good the movie was, so that I had to watch it a second time.

It tells the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath) and Jack Twist (Jake), two young men who seek for employment. They are hired by a sheep rancher to herd sheep on the nearby Brokeback Mountain. To follow the rules, one man has to stay at the base camp for preparing meals, and the other one has to watch after the sheep. So they solely meet for meals at the base camp. As the meals turn into heavy whiskey sessions and the drunken Ennis can't return to the sheep, he decides to stay with Jack. Ennis is invited to sleep in the tent with Jack where they have their first sexual encounter. The next day they talk about what happened the night before and insisit that they both "ain't queer". However, over the following weeks their emotional, but also physical relationship deepens.

Due to a heavy snowfall at the end of August, their job is done. Both being frustrated about their parting of their ways they started a brawl. Ennis marries his long-term fianceé and they have two daughters, living in Wyoming. Jack gets stuck in Texas, where he meets the rodeo queen Lureen, with whom he has got a son.

Excatly four years later, Ennis receives a card from Jack, where he asks if he wanna meet him. When Jack arrives, they immediatley start to kiss. What they don't know is that Ennis' wife is watching them. However,they spend the night in a motel together. The next day they go camping and decide to get together more frequently.

The years are passing and the marriage of Ennis and Alma worsens, it finally ends in divorce. Ennis moves into a shabby house and has to pay child support. As Jack hears the grateful news of the divorce, he drives to Wyoming in hopes that they can live togehter now. But Ennis refuses.

On their next camping trip, they talk about their lives what has happend during the time the haven't met. When Ennis tells Jack that they can't meet for several months because of job reasons, he gets frustrated. After a short struggle they end up in embrace.

Some time later, a postcard that Ennis sent to Jack about the next meeting returned to Ennis with "deceased". At once, he calls Jack's wife to ask what has happened. She tells him that Jack died in an accident when he wants to change a tire, which exploded. Furthermore, she tells him that Jack wished that his ash is scattered at the Brokeback Mountain. In the end, Ennis gets in contact with Jack's family to make Jack's last will come true.

Finally, I don't wanna withhold you the "maybe-stars" for a "maybe-part-two" of Brokeback Mountain. So, here we go: