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Passions On Fire

Submitted by banadglt on November 16, 2007

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Passions On Fire

Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005) was a breakthrough movie in the sexual history of Hollywood. The movie presents the hard rough life of two ranch hands, who become helpless victims of love and pain, rage and despair. This movie is based on the captivating short-story of
Annie Proulx. The advantage visual media has over literature, to capture life in its reality, has been demonstrated once again in this successful movie. Young, passionate and raw, like Marlboro men, Jack and Ennis are models of the legendary American cowboy. They struggle against rules of gender, society and their own beliefs. The passions they release are a result of the situations they are pitched into and prevent us from passing a just verdict. Brokeback Mountain reminds us of the immense power of love, to break and to make. It also gives the viewer a hard look at how imagination meets reality in practical life.
Brokeback Mountain ideologically deals with the social economy of the cowboy lifestyle. The story's narrative tells us of the history of the two friends, two school dropouts struggling to make a living. Jack was the son of a rodeo-riding, ranch owner. Starting to ‘ride' sheep from a young age, Jack takes a passion for rodeo riding. He earns a major portion of his income from it, besides from ranch work. Ennis was orphaned in his childhood and grew up with his brother and sister. The story tells us that Ennis was interested in high school and thought that the word ‘sophomore' carried its own distinction (Proulx 2). To his bad luck, his pickup broke down and not having money to repair it, he was pitched into ranch work. The story acquaints us with the financial struggle the men face in the sweet years of teenage. According to Ennis, the feeling of
‘being broke all the time' was indeed a fact. The reality of western social and economical conditions is presented here. It is ironic that Jack and Ennis seek employment at ‘Broke'...

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