The love between Jack and Ennis described in "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee always reminds me of Adam Lambert's song "Outlaws of love". The lyrics sing "We have traveled to the end of the world." , looking for the sun of hope, but no matter where we go, there is no place for us to grow old, we can only run forever." This is also the fate of Jack and Ennis expressed in the movie.
The reason why this movie is excellent is, first of all, that it focuses on the most sincere feelings deep in the human heart. Secondly, it is also the first mainstream movie in the history of movies to tell about same-sex love. It carries many of the past stories. The feelings and injustices of "shady" people. Secondly, thanks to the excellence of the original novel and the director's superb scene scheduling skills, they used a large shady background to contrast with the fiery passion in the two people's hearts, and contrasted the most bland narrative with the deep-rooted lovesickness to make the story The love here seems particularly tragic and sad, which can't help but be moved.
An excellent movie must focus on the most sincere emotions deep in the human heart
What can move the audience the most and make the audience scream is always It is the most sincere feeling in our hearts. In the movie, Jack and Ennis' twenty-year love easily makes us cry. Thanks to Director Ang Lee, when describing such a relationship that is not accepted by the world, he did not use any spectacle techniques, but truly started from the most basic love of the human heart. This also made the audience of this movie happy. It is no longer limited to the LGBT community, but extends to all sentient and loving human beings. It makes people let go of their prejudices and open their hearts unconsciously during the movie watching.
The director’s precise use of film language
In the final analysis, the film is more inclined to the director’s expression. It is Director Ang Lee’s familiarity and insight into the story, as well as his mastery of film scheduling. It takes superb skills to make this story appear so poignant and moving in a different way.
1) The contrast between the cool external environment and the fiery inner emotions
Brokeback Mountain, the subject of the story, is a winter pasture, cold white sheep, and endless Green gives people a sense of retreat, remoteness and depressing coolness, and the season in which the story takes place is also winter, a season with little temperature. In the cold north wind on the mountain, the only thing that warms is their passion for each other. But this bit of warmth seemed so vulnerable in such a vast and boundless cold.
2) There is another contrast between the overall bland narrative of the movie and the deep love between lovers
There is no particularly fierce conflict in "Brokeback Mountain". To be more precise, Director Ang Lee deliberately avoided those intense scenes and used a plain narrative style to tell an unforgettable love. Even Jack's death is not described in a positive way, but it is this approach of avoiding fierce conflicts that makes people feel more thrilling behind the calmness of everything. After watching the movie, for a long time, I couldn't forget that the twenty-year-old shirt that Ennis found after Jack's death was still carefully preserved by Jack. There was no crying or other hysterical expressions, but that Jack's coat, which was collected by Ennis, aptly tells us that there is no need to explain the deep love between them.
In that era, their stories were not tolerated by the world, and their feelings were offensive to human ethics. The director cleverly used bland narratives and bleak backgrounds to subtly bring the suffocating oppression of the entire environment to the audience. It has become an audience, allowing us to feel the heavy pressure outside the play, so heavy that we can't even express our love aloud. Touching people's hearts with true feelings, and then using superb directorial skills and casting that fits the characters to tell the story to conquer the audience's critical eyes. This is Ang Lee's brilliance, and it is also the brilliance of this movie.