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Brokeback

Homosexuality is not a new concept; it is has been an explored area of society for many years. Gay roles portraying homosexuals as people with the same drives and desires as heterosexual people have only begun to surface in the last few decades. Men have been required since the nineteen forties to live as men of society and alternatively as primitive men. Roles showing lesbian women and transgender seem to have been more widely accepted especially when they are used as humor. The role of the gay man in society and in film seems to be widely accepted when those roles are opposed or when the stereotype of explicitly gay man is needed to inject some humor. The role of the homosexual man is only now receiving the same attention that other controversial roles have received without the extreme criticism in the past.
Since the social acceptance of homosexuality, especially with regard to long term relationships, has slowly grown, more films are breaking through the stereotypes to form a more complete picture of gay relationships not just gay sex. Films like Brokeback Mountain show the humanity of their characters allowing the audience to see what they already know, love between two people. The popularity of Brokeback Mountain surprised many, but when a quality film is made with the thought of humanity in mind there is usually a good response. When that same film provokes conversation it can be assumed that society has accepted its message.
Could Brokeback Mountain tell its story about homosexuality and at the same time be less dramatic and not be a great film? The filmmakers have focused so closely and with such feeling on Jack and Ennis characters, that the movie is emotionally perceptive to the audience about the struggles of heartache. The film relates to the vast of society, because the more it understands the individual characters, the more everyone can relate to them. Jack and Ennis are emotionally bonded to one another. The physical ache...

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