Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Brokeback Mountain
Has anyone out there manage to catch Brokeback Mountain recently? Synopsis as follows...
The new film from Academy Award-nominated director Ang Lee. An epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. (source: Internet Movie Database)
On the surface, it might seem that Brokeback Mountain is a show glorifying the gay lifestyle and culture. Some even go so far as to propose that the film tries to gain sympathy for people who subscribe to such a lifestyle.
Yeah, true... Brokeback Mountain does seem to revolve around the theme of gay-ism and the alternative lifestyle. Both men (superbly portrayed by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) find forbidden love with each other and struggle their entire lifetime to come to terms with their addiction to one another. As Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) puts it in the film: 'God, I wish I knew how to quit you!'
Read a newspaper article over the weekend which puts to us that everyone has a Brokeback Mountain within all of us. And I definitely agree with the writer. If we read deeper into the film, all of us (and I mean ALL of us) have got some 'addiction' of some sort within that we have to come to terms with. Be it the longings for love, cravings for chocolate and the itch for the latest electronic gadgets, they are all addictions! Question is... how do we differentiate which is a 'want' and a 'need'? Can we be blind to what is most important to us?
Brokeback Mountain symbolizes our addiction to all things that is in conflict with our internal selves. We sometimes visit our own Brokeback. But we must all realize it for what it is, an addiction which must be controlled and not in control.
Take it easy, Keep it real...
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