Watched "Brokeback Mountain" last night. ***spoilers***

[Coventina]

What a powerful movie!!

It broke my heart. I came really unglued when Ennis found the shirts in Jack's closet.

:cry:

I'm glad I watched it, though. It was a great story about love. I won't say "love story" because to me that implies something else. Wasn't one of the tag lines for the movie "Love is a force of nature"? I think that fits really well, and is very true. I know what it is like to be helpless in the face of an overwhelming love. Love can be incredibly destructive as well as constructive.

I have also been in the position of loving a gay man and the tears and hurt and frustration that come with that. I could feel the pain of Alma as she learned the truth.

It also drives home the point that we need to keep working toward a society where it is safe to be whomever you are. Think of all the lives it will save and enrich, when nobody has to suffer like Ennis and Jack.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I didn't see it as a love story at all.

To me, it was much more about the tragedy of having to face the world knowing that you're gay and have having to hide it because you could get beaten to death because of it.

I felt the love part was actually quite minimal, and that's why it was worthy of an Oscar nomination. (Crash was better though.)

[Coventina]

2. I said "story about love" not "love story" and said there was a difference

I see the central theme is Ennis and Jack's love up agains the demands of themselves and the cruel world.

But you see it differently, that's fine.