Brokeback Mountain

Extended Journal 2 Love stories are often common features in many tragedies, but one unique film is Brokeback Mountain which tells the story of two cowboys, Jack and Ennis, who fall in love. The viewers witness two men gradually develop their relationship and watch the men face the struggles of being in love with one another during this time. The two men start off as two young men looking for work. While working together their relationship slowly develops and the men fall in love. Ennis is hesitant to be in an open relationship with Jack in fears of being discriminated against, when he was younger he saw a dead man who was beaten to death for being gay. Witness the death of a gay man caused Ennis to believe being gay was wrong. As the years
He dies changing a tire that explodes or so Jack’s wife says. When Ennis hears of the news he imagines that Jack was actually beaten to death, which he feared would happen much of their relationship. The true death is left up to interpretation whether Jack died from an exploding tire or was rather beaten to death. Ennis becomes affected by the death of Jack thinking of the life they could have lived together and if they had lived their lives together. Ennis own personal tragedy is knowing that he was the one who denied Jack of their love and that the cause of Jack’s death may have been because he was seeking a male companion. Ennis struggles with living life without Jack and not having that same love again. While Ennis still keeps to himself during this hard time, he keeps the two shirts that he and Jack were wearing when the two men fell in love. The shirts are Ennis’s only physical reminder of their relationship. Ennis denying his love for Jack led him to a divorce, failed relationships, poor, living in a trailer and losing the love of his life. Ennis lost the chance to have a real relationship with Ennis and losing the love of his life which is the true