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......
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