Finally, I watched this movie, after hearing so much about it.  I try not to remember what other people said about it. I want to see it though by my own raw eyes. Non-deniable that Brokeback Mountain is a beautiful place. A place that is in the middle of nowhere; a place that is filled with running water, humming birds, ever-lasting views and sheep as white as the clouds. It is a place for love, for stories and for memories. Everything is perfect, the way they laugh, they sing, the herd, they fight…the only thing is that they are both male.

In the time and society, which doesn’t accept gays, Jack and Ennis had to hide they relationship and move on with their lives, trying to fit. They both got married and had children, but the deep they bury the love for each other, the larger the explosion is. They are both victims of the time because they sacrificed the love and passion, just to please the rest the community and to look like “normal”. Well, their wives are victims too, I think. The man that you have been sleeping with and having kids with, is not even interested in a female body, what kind of lie is it? Day by day, year by year, there was no happily ever after, for any of them…All Ennis could grab was the shirt, the bloodstained shirt. To remind him Jack’s love, his regretless love.

In most of the places, today, gays and lesbians are still being viewed as different, weird, disgusting and unaccepted. I don’t see why their love is forbidden and punished. Should they lie to themselves and hiding in the closet forever? Should they give up their sexuality so that other people feel more comfortable? Is that not cheating? A lie to their partners? Husband and wives? Is that not a betrayal? To they lovers? Isn’t that true that we are all looking for soul mate? If so, does id matter what kind of body the soul lives in? A life time liar is better that being a gay?

I still think Jack and Ennis are very lucky. Even though they didn’t end up which their true love, they didn’t die in each other’s arms, they still know who is the one, they know who is the one that worth everything, they know that is love, what is passion and they had tasted it, they used up their lives to trade a day to go back to Brokeback mountain, just to be together, to stop the time and enjoy the air called love.

Maybe all of us have a place in mind that is so special, right? Do you have one? That one place which carries a story, a person, a piece of our lives. A place that when people mention its name, our hearts ache. So, do you have such a place in mind? Where is your Brokeback Mountain?