Brokeback Mountain Among My Highlights of 2005
Kavita Chhibber - January 02, 2006
This film was making waves because of a short but explicit gay love scene and a story that revolved around two cowboys in the early sixties. Yet Brokeback Mountain is
simply an ageless, timeless, heart warming and heart breaking love story. It defies gender, ethnicity, and seems so right, even in a time that was supposedly wrong for passion between two men. I must warn you before you read more- Personally I always read the reviews and then go to see a movie to ensure it’s worth my time, but my friend Ajit who saw it with me says he hates it when reviewers give away plot lines! if you are like Ajit and haven’t seen the movie, but are planning to, then you may want to skip this. Just wanted to make sure!
A chance meeting between two 19 year old cowboys, (the direct anti thesis of each other) ends in their working together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis Del Mar(Heath Ledger) is quiet, often socially inept, inscrutable, his face and emotions hidden beneath a white hat. Jack Twist(Jake Gyllenhaal) a rodeo cowboy is more open, his long lashed startling blue eyes checking out the obviously ill at east Ennis, as both wait for a Wyoming rancher (Randy Quaid) to show up to give them a job.
A season of sheep herding, leads to a shy letting down of barriers by Ennis as the comfort level between the two men slowly increases. Then a cold night, some whisky and the beginning of a love affair that both try dismissing as a one night stand. Ennis tells Jack brusquely, “You know I ain't queer.” Jack replies glibly “Me neither” but the relationship deepens and intensifies. At the end of the season both leave knowing that their connection went beyond anything they had ever known or felt for any one else. Jack looks at Ennis wistfully and asks if he would be back for another season-the response is a curt no from Ennis who adds that he is soon getting married. The longing in Jack’s eyes as they part reflects itself in the despair that Ennis feels as he vomits and sobs out his anguish as soon as Jack leaves.
Both get married and meet again four years later.
Life has changed for both. Ennis is struggling to make ends meet raising two daughters. Jack has married into money and is struggling to come to terms with being the kept son in law of a rich man as he continues his life with a flaky wife and a spoilt young son.
Their seemingly mundane life comes to a stand still for a few days after four years when they reunite. A usually reticent Ennis throws caution to the wind as he hungrily kisses and embraces Jack right underneath the window accidentally opened by his wife Alma (Michelle Williams) who becomes a shocked witness to something she is unprepared for. The scene is heart breaking and poignant at the same time. The two go back to recapture the magic of their cocooned existence on Brokeback mountain under the pretext of fishing. They meet each year for 2 decades for a few days to connect intensely and then part while Alma hides her agony in tears, puffs of cigarette smoke and sudden resentful tantrums.
The only other place Ennis feels comfortable in showing his emotions is the tenderness with which he kisses and tends to his two daughters. There is a very telling scene where Ennis and his wife are screaming angrily at each other still clinging to a marriage already in tatters, the two young girls are on swings watching the tirade, as Alma stomps away. Ennis stops, his voice suddenly softened with love and asks the girls if they needed a push, before going back to kick a drum angrily out of the way. Alma finally ends the marriage without confronting Ennis.
Jack seemingly has it all, and yet the emptiness that he feels becomes unbearable with each reunion. A specially telling moment happens when Jack joyously drives all the way from Texas to Wyoming after hearing about Ennis’s divorce and hoping to spend the weekend with him, only to find Ennis has his daughters for the weekend. He drives away tears of frustration and unrequited love streaming down his face. He drowns his sorrow in the first of many one night stands with a male prostitute in Mexico.
A few stolen days of love and enchantment every year for two decades are not enough any more for Jack. He tries to convince Ennis to leave, and live with him. But Ennis refuses and instead shares an incident that has haunted him from the time he was a young boy. Two older men who lived together near his home were found brutally murdered one day. His father takes him and his older brother to look at the corpses to ensure they knew this was wrong. He says to Jack “This thing gets hold of us at the wrong time and wrong place and we're dead.”
Memories of 20 years flash by before Jack’s sorrow filled eyes as they stand haggling for dates and times when Ennis can see him. An August reunion is pushed to November. Jack walks away.. never to return. Ennis receives a postcard that Jack is dead. Numb with grief, he calls Jack’s home and his wife concocts a story about a burst tire, an accident, as scenes of men violently attacking and killing Jack flash in the background bringing back memories of Matthew Shepherd, the young gay man killed in Wyoming a few years ago. Jack’s wife tells Ennis that Jack wanted his ashes sprinkled on Brokeback Mountain but she wasn’t sure it even existed. If he wants, Ennis could collect them from Jack’s parents and fulfill his last wish.
Jack’s parents, their faces ravaged by grief, share memories of their son with Ennis. Spoken and unspoken words tell him that they know their son had been waiting for him for years. His mother gives Ennis access to Jack’s room. Her pain stricken haunted eyes light up for just a brief moment as she says she has kept the room as it had been since Jack’s childhood.
Stoic and silent, Ennis walks into the dark room, raises the window as if to finally let the light of his presence, and his love through, and breaks down when he finds his blood stained shirt in Jack’s closet. My friend pointed out how that scene was such a telling moment….both men keep each other’s clothes and a postcard of Brokeback mountain in the closet-.a closet that they could never emerge from. Ennis takes Jack’s shirt that covers one of his own, with him.
The movie ends, with Ennis standing, in his sparse mobile home, gazing with tear filled eyes at the two shirts, and a postcard of Brokeback mountain, after his daughter leaves telling him to come to her wedding. As she moves to a future filled with love, Ennis is surrounded again by the ghost of a lost love..a love that was within his grasp in those stolen moments on a hauntingly beautiful mountain. If only he could have held on tight.
Heath Ledger and Jack Gyllenhaal especially have gone beyond excellence in their performances. Ang lee always mesmerizes me with the grace and beauty of his direction, and this film was no different when it came to breathtaking cinematography. He captures the beauty of rural Wyoming with the same finesse with which he narrates the story of the rarest of deep connections and the anguish of hopeless love. Of course my friend said he would be curious to know about the response in Wyoming to this film. So would I. This is definitely a must see film for 2006.
Memories of the story I had done on South Asian gays some time back came flooding back and with it the realization that though things are better, there are so many challenges that remain.
More than anything else I walked away reminded once again that love and life are transient and can vanish in the blink of an eye, and you must not be afraid to hold on, because ultimately, the worst thing in life is regret.
I end with one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost that seems to resonate so well with this story.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Posted by Kavita Chhibber at January 2, 2006 10:30 AM
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Bravo!
I too saw the movie, and am thrilled that everyone involved, but especially these two young actors, decided to put forth such conviction and honesty, despite the backlash I'm sure they have received from making this movie.
I'm so proud to know that so many people took a chance and were brave enough to realize the impact that this movie will have for generations to come.
My heart goes out to the countless humans who are right now living a lie and who are unable to confront their love for antoher human being. I love you, we love you, God loves you!
I want thousands, and thousands of loving, open-minded people to go see this movie. It will dispell the myth that we are not ready for something like this. If not now, than when?
Thank you for your beautiful review. Please go see the movie.
Dear Kavita,
Hello and warm wishes I send to you, at this beginning new year! And lots of love.
"More than anything else I walked away reminded once again that love and life are transient and can vanish in the blink of an eye, and you must not be afraid to hold on, because ultimately, the worst thing in life is regret"
'True' love is not, I do not think, transient. I agree with you, to live in regret, is to live in bondage. And that is Not living!
I know now, what took years of experience, trials and stumblings, going beyond my means in efforts, to please and cater - to others, to keep and win love - that is a form of bondage.
In recent times, when a moment of awakening occured, and I saw/felt my Real nature - so much fell away, and a freedom rushed in, as I had never really experienced. Oh - I do remember my childhood, and I had moments of great freedom, but did loose that awareness along the way of fitting in, beliefs and opinions fostered on me, and the ones I made up and accepted with no help from anyone! :)
Sorry, Kavita - if I have strayed from this posting. Somehow, I feel - it does tie into your movie review.
I love the Robert Frost poem too! :)
With love,
~ Kate
Wow , what a beautiful, powerful love story.
The performance of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaul are beyond words . Love knows not gender,just the heart and soul, that speaks to
each other. I found it interesting that the movie
was from a short story written by a women, Annie Proulx.
Wonderful review , thank you, Kavita
Love to all
Kavita,
Brokeback Mountain is definitely the highlight of 2005. May this be the start of the tide which washes down the fundamentalist ideas opposing gays and lesbians.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful, insightful and eloquent review. As beautifully written as the film itself.
I agree with everything you've said and with the comments from your readers.
The film is indeed a masterpiece in silence. So much is being said while no words are being spoken. So much is being felt while nothing is being shown.
It truly is a highpoint in American film making. Especially this year.
Bless you..... richard
beautiful review,I am going to watch this movie
Hi Kavita,
You've sure got me intrigued!! What a review!!Am waiting to get my hands on it..In the meanwhile watch "The legend of 1900"..cannot get over that one too.One of my fave directors Giuseppe Torantore (hope I got his name right)..same guy who directed 'Cinema paradiso'.
I was standing in a supermarket...Two young guys walked in together...they picked up batteries,mint and one of them picked up a red rose paid for it hurriedly and hid it in his sweat shirt....
They held each others hands and looked at each other with so much love and kindness.
I had not seen a gay couple before and always felt a bit uneasy...this is almost 8 years ago.Looking at those two people in love changed my outlook.Their emotions and feelings were for real.
Once outside the store when the guy buying the battery was given the rose...he was so happy and i wish i could describe the moment.It was very poignant and touching.This moment will stay with me forever...
Kate thanks for sharing moments of your own personal growth. Life and true love are transient, not in that true love dies, but the giver of that love may be lost to us through death.
The way Ennis finds out about Jack's death really hammers that home. Ennis goes to the post office and receives a postcard in Jack's handwriting which talks about whether November 7th is okay for them to reconnect..Across the scrawl is a stamp in big bright red letters which says DECEASED. The shock and disbelief on his face is heart breaking: even more heart breaking is the call he makes to Jack's wife..it is formal almost indifferent and distant in tone, yet the grief that resonates through the haunted look of despair in his eyes is deeply moving. He is still pretending, still denying what should have been the greatest truth in his life.
All of you have to see the film to realize what Richard says.. the silence speaks even more than the words.
The short story on which this was based was only 10 pages, the screenplay a mere 90 pages. Even the music score is sparse along with the dialogue, yet this movie left such an indelible impact. Wish I could say the same thing about Munich by Spielberg.
Thanks Madhav, G Chapman, Seascape, Seema Kaveetaa,(will check out the legend of 1900) Richard, Krish and Andaleeb.
Andaleeb your comment reiterated what I said..a love story is only about love..and that is why it touches the heart.
I have not seen the movie yet Kavita; but, you make it sound like a must-see! I've heard raves for and against it. You have done a splendid review Kavita, Bravo!
One day, my son and I were watching a hallowe'en cartoon on TV. Commercials come on; and some movie reviews. Suddenly a scene of two men kissing on the lips like lovers came on the screen.
My son's face dropped. He was like maybe seven years old! I was so upset at the TV station! How do you explain such a situation to a boy so very young?
I merely asked him what he thought love meant. He did pretty good! lol and felt it was for a mom and dad though.
I then asked him to imagine what it must be like, to be born a man, but when you grow up, you are attracted to another man, instead of girls; it can't be easy being born that way.
Something must have clicked because he said: "Mom, love is too important to worry about if a man loves another man; love is for everybody"
Out of the mouths of babes...
North
Interesting story North. I think children have a far less complicated way of looking at things and we could learn a lot from them.
Hi Kavita, well the shock on my sons face; warranted a good mom-son talk that's for sure! And yes, children do seem to be great teachers.
North
you are a cool woman and a cooler mom North! I know your son will be an open minded, kind and sensitive person because of what his mother has taught him
Hi Kavita, yes my son is wonderfully grounded, sensitive has a wonderful sense of play and humour; and also, being a Scorpio has a seriousness for passions; like playing guitar and programming.
He quite understands the importance of love; the less importance of social acceptance when it comes to love.
Love is all-encompassing.
North
I'm thrilled about the following nominations, especially since they are considered a precursor evidently for who gets nominated at the Oscars..especially for Ledger and Gyllenhaal
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The actors of gay romance "Brokeback Mountain" earned four nominations for Screen Actors Guild awards on Thursday, more than any other film, further cementing the film's position as a front-runner for Oscars.
The movie that has drawn wide critical acclaim was nominated for best cast in a film, the Screen Actors Guild's top honor, alongside race relations film "Crash," political movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Capote," about the author Truman Capote, and in a surprise, the drama "Hustle & Flow."
The Screen Actors Guild represents film and television actors, and because actors make up a large voting group for Oscars, the U.S. film industry's top awards, the SAG honors are considered a key indicator of which actors may win Oscars.
Along with best cast, "Brokeback" earned a nomination for lead actor in a film for Heath Ledger and one for supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal. Their co-star, Michelle Williams, was nominated for best supporting actress in a film."
Hi Kavita,
I have missed you!
Thanks for posting the review. You have an eye for what is interesting .... Life unfolding, in all its various ways.
Love, Kate
Thanks Kate for your sweet post. Ite been a bit hectic and have been sporadically on the blog.
Plus some stressful times for a close friend of mine so dealing with that all day today.
Take care, will be back soon
Hi Kavita, Kate, I just watched Million Dollar Baby finally; and it's a 2-box kleenex at the end. wow! powerful movie, focusing on assisted death...brrr. then, i watched The Life of David Gale; mind-bending ending! a must-see as well.
Kavita, hope your friend is on the mend soon; you are so dedicated to all of your friends. I almost see you as the woman whom would pick up a fallen bird, and put it back in the nest.
I was listening to your CD again today; blasting it; thought my neighbour was out. when I realized she was home, I called to appologise. she says what kind of music you listening too? I told her, she said it's lovely, very different.
I find it mezmerizing! I find, immediately I am floating on threads of peace, tranquility strung on a base of love. I have no words really; only appreciation for it's beautiful delivery to my senses.
North
Thank you North..no things are right now not good..my best friend's rather young and beautiful mother(she is in her early 50s, with hair down to her knees and beautiful person) has been diagnosed with what seems like a rare form of breast cancer.. further tests are being done as things are very inconclusive still..my friend is a truly generous and giving man-a leo what do you expect..but I think he is an extension of his mother..she is one of the nicest most giving selfless people I know.
I'm headed out next week to spend time with them and I hope every one on the blog will pray for her..
Dear Kavita,
Your friend's mom shall have my prayers! I may be gone for a little while from writing at intent, but I will keep good and loving thoughts for her.
Thank you for the joy of your words and heart that you bring here and shower us all with!
Love and Blessings,
~ Kate
Dear North,
You are very dear to my heart!
I do believe you would nestle a little bird, cupped in your hand, to keep safe and warm. Every fragile thing, needs that kind of love and care.
~Kate
I do hope Tiffany will agree to take turns with the ping-pong! :)
Just now, Somewhere Over the Rainbow is playing.
Oh, those bluebirds have the secret of how to get there, at the rainbow's end
Hi Kavita,
It is sad about your friends mother.Understandably a testing time for all involved.It would help if you had given her name. In case you are reluctant to do so, you can e mail it to me.
I will be praying for her nonetheless. The power of prayer is to be experienced to be believed.
Keep the faith
Thank you Kate, North and Kaveetaa for your good wishes.
Kaveetaa I sent you her name. I havent announced it on the blog because beyond the immediate family no one yet knows till all the testing is done..her relatives and her old mother in india dont know and the internet is an open forum world wide.
Once I get permission I will put her name here. I believe totally in the power of prayer.
thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Dear Kavita, you and your friend and his mother are in my healing prayers! Please know we are walking with you all, in Spirit and with positive hope.
Dear Kate, I look forward to the ping pong challenge with you and Tiffany!
North
Hi, Kavita
Sending prayers for your friends mother.
Love to all
Intellectually I approve of such movies and applaud the openess and honesty yet I can not watch this movie.
I enjoy Christina Aguilera's music very much and I especially like the song " Beautiful" but when I saw the video I had an involuntary reaction in my stomach to throw up. I can not watch two men kiss like that and not feel the urge to throw up.
And so that song became ruined for me. Now when I here the song I think of the two men instead of how beutiful the song is and I want to puke. Again it is an involuntary reaction.
Theoretically it should be just fine for two men to do that but somehow it doesn't translate to my emotions.
Oh well.
-g
You wrote a very nice review.
Thanks North, Seascape and guitarsandmore.
we will have a better picture about my friend's cancer by next week. I know your prayers will help.
Guitarsandmore, I understand what you've said, but I hope you will focus on the love and not the sexual aspect to appreciate the song. Why should someone's sexuality be the sum of their personality. There is so much more to all of us, and what every one does in their bedroom is their business not ours.
I personally thought the scenes were tastefully done and the focus of the movie was on the relationship between the two men outside of the sexual aspect. That is why you were kind enough to say you liked my review.
best always
That should have read my friend's mom. By the way her name is Sudha and I hope all the reiki masters and others here will send their healing. I did get permission from her son to mention her name here.
I liked your review because it was very well written, showed lots of thought and reflection on your part. I am partial to any story that ends with a poem! Having not seen the movie myself I have no idea if it is tasteful or not but I will trust your opinion.
When Robert Frost says " and that has made all the difference " - I have had English Lit PHDs tell me that he is really saying he was sorry he took the path of Literature. There is supposeduly much documented evidence of this fact but who knows ?
Thank you very much Guitarsandmore for your kind words. and I'm glad Robert Frost took the road he did, whatever his reservations. I feel eventually we all end up where we are meant to be. His poetry has incredible beauty and poignance. Along with Yeats, and Wordworth, he remains one of my favorite poets.
Dear Kavita,
I will keep prayers for your friend's mom. Sudha is a lovely name.
I wish healing and Blessings to her and her family.
Love,
~ Kate
p.s.
perhaps Robert Frost might have come back to the other road, one can always change direction, does not matter time or age!
I believe we can walk both paths, or none. Just not at the same time!
:)
A brilliant review Kavita. I must thankyou for that, as I saw the movie a few days ago, and could not put into words how great i felt the movie was, your words sum up the story and reflections well!
This movie will go down as one of my all time favourites!
Thank you Kate and Pav.I just read that a cinema theater in Utah decided against screening the movie.
A pity.
Dear Kavita I saw the movie last Friday I looked at this blog but following the advise on its first paragraph I did not wanted to read it. I did read it today and something interesting happened. On Friday nite after seeing the movie I did not felt as moved by what I was expecting it to move me neither I found the movie particularly great in spite of the beautiful cinematography and scenic beauty and in a sense the plot which, frankly speaking, I found sort of slow moving action.But then after reading this blog I started to realize that I might have to see the movie again.Now it touches me and I understand the metaphor about it.The end of the movie touched me because Ennis also died spiritually speaking after Jack is no more.The film might use the gay theme but the plot becomes universal because at the core of the message this is a film about love its joys and pains.I can relate a little bit about it not only because I am gay and have to endure a lot because of my opennnes about it but because in a sense it made me remember a recent experience that changed my life. This has to do with my trip to India and a kind of adventure of this kind that I have over there. But that is a story I am goingto leave for another time and space as I am working on my trip story I might include that episode on it. I learned a lesson and reaffirmed in something I said when I was a university student many times: I will live my life passionately without reserves and fully not that life will live me rolling over me and making of it just an existence passing thru life. Sometimes in the midst of our work routines or out of self preservation one forgets to truly seek for happiness and then opportunities pass by in front of oneself and sometimes one do not take advantage of the moment. Then growing old one regrets that not having made the decision in the right moment to become happy or at least trying in the intent. I hope I do not have to end like Ennis so sad and frustrated that not even his daughter's invitation to her wedding arouses on him brink of a smile on his face. He does smile but he has to force it. When he sees Jack shirt spotted in blood and the postcard and he started to cry about it in that moment Ennis is merely existing he stopped to live. No way I am going to walk that path. Love have to be painful sometimes in order to place ourselves in the other person's skin and understand how they feel and how fortunate we are to have at least once in a lifetime to have been able to love with no conditions freely. About my experience in India in a society that this theme is taboo and just when I decided that I will not have any type of intimacy with any man in the midst of a musical festival he came to me like a cloud descended from the sky. And I gave in to his entreaties because he was the only and first guy to honestly accept that he was gay. And I fell in love the rest let me see if I will write it in my story. Because I am here where there is the liberty to be whatever you want but I have to protect him because from where he is laws of tradition are too strongly rooted quite smilar in a sense to the films environment and I do not want that what happen to the men who lived together in the film in Ennis childhood flashback and again at the news of Jack's death, happens to him. For one year we have email each other and I have called him on the phone as to not forget his smiling childish voice I have had his name in my mouth every day and thought of him. He was one of the reasons why the last day of my trip I did not wanted to come back to the US that I wanted to stay in India. But convention and self preservation was more powerful. Still I do not loose hope and see if the next time I go to India we can define our relationship. We have opted to call it a friendship. But on my part I feel it is more than that. Like the two cowboys in the movie he have to marry at some point otherwise he runs the risk to be the scorn of his family and his town. And in the middle there are a thousand things separating us: the distance the culture the age ( I am 43 he is 27 but when I met him one year ago I forgot my age I do not care for that anymore) the caste (he is a Brahmin)etc. Even if he is not the one for me at least I decided I will fight for my happiness and will not live in the shadows like Jack and Ennis. I do not want to be in the hide of a mountain to meet my partner and enjoy and express our love every once and then. This young man from the heart of India ( he is from Madhya Pradesh) taught me the beautiful lesson of love in a country where I went with my heart full of love. Love is rewarded with more love or in Spanish my native tongue Amor con amor se paga. My encounter with him was unexpected and not even dreamt about. It destroyed me after I came back cried for almost 3 months but also made me the happiest man on earth. That is how I relate this film to my life. And I recommend to anyone does not matter your preference or circumstance that has loved intensely and has to suffer for that loved one to see this movie. You will feel some bittersweet taste in the depths of your soul but enveloped in the beauty of this experience we call life. It was a great touch to end your blog with the poem by Robert Frost a coup de lettre. Thank you Kavita for your insight on this film. In the times we are living something like this helps to soothe our daily lives.
Thanks Dario,
glad my review made you take a second look at the film.Your life story is perhaps worth converting into another screenplay!
Dear Dario, there is a dance in your words, describing your joy "for" loves sake; and not so much for the sake of social-acceptance of love.
I commend you on your courage, to put love first.
North
I am surprised and flattered to have received a response to my little review and response about the movie. Kavita my dear friend what you mention above you say it and do not know it how assertive you are in me doing a screenplay or a novel. And you are not the first one to tell me so. But I have been lazy procrastinating and delaying bla bla bla jajajaja Yes I have to put that way and I am to blame. Yes my life can be converted into a novel and believe me central to that story one of the greatest character coming from my keypad will be Donya Matilde my mother. She is a novel or a film in herself. Sorry that I am sending this blog so late Gosh that I have to have my own computer very soon. Remember this is from work writing in my breaks lunch time etc. Your response Kavita does not surprise me in a sense I was expecting it because we know each other from Indian classical music concerts in Atlanta and by chatting a little once in a while. But I am amazed that the other blogger sending me a response to my blog above is someone that I have come to admire and respect even if I do not know North in person.Yes North whenever I see the Intentblog I check on your comments and my image of you is of a wonderful human being a motherlike figure spreading with your words poetry spirituality and music. Just in the way you say that I have dance in my words it is like if you know me. Because I like to dance put me salsa merengue sevillana belly dancing or Bharat Natyam or Kathak. But because I am not as flexible and less fat as I used to be I think of me more as musical opera Umm Kalsoum or Lata Mangeshkar or Kirsten Flagstad. By the way I imitate their voices quite accurately. I am very flattered and honored by your comment North. If it would not be because love is first in my life you do not know how grim my life would have turned doing the same routine over and over in a boring city like Birmingham Alabama where destiny and need brought me six years ago. You as other people in this blog and at Kavita's magazine online will know who I am when I finish my story about my trip to India. And I might include or expand on my close encounter with that server of clouds that I met in India my story above. If you know Kalidasa I already am saying his name.I do not go by social conventions I go for the spirit and the sincere expressions of my emtions. Believe me both North and Kavita because of that more than once I have paved the way for trouble. But I do not exchange my personality I do not negotiate my individuality and the way I am not even for all the gold in the world. Have to go my break at work is coming to an end. But I send you both as well as people like Dr Chopra and all the people in this beautiful expression place that is Intentblog blessings for this New Year and the remainder of your wonderful lives which I wish will be very long and beautiful. When I get my own computer I hope to participate more in this forum. Thank you mil gracias y bendiciones
Will Brokeback Mountain be shown in India. I assume not. Am I wrong? I hope so.
Brokeback Mountain certainly made the Oscars so much more inclusive alongwith other gay themed films like Transamerica and Capote. Its really heartening to see the mainstreaming of queer themed films. Wonder when will happen in Bollywood!
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Sridhar Rangayan commented on Brokeback Mountain Among My Highlights of 2005
Brokeback Mountain certainly made the Oscars so
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David commented on Brokeback Mountain Among My Highlights of 2005
Will Brokeback Mountain be shown in India. I as
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Dario Irizarry commented on Brokeback Mountain Among My Highlights of 2005
I am surprised and flattered to have received a
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North commented on Brokeback Mountain Among My Highlights of 2005
Dear Dario, there is a dance in your words, des
Awesome review and the poem at the end is one of my favorites too.
I'm heading out to see this film as soon as I can.