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But as it turns out, just as Wesley in The Princess Bride was actually “mostly dead”, Frodo and Sam were probably just “mostly” gay. Ennis lost one already, and it seems he'll attempt to not lose the other.I’ve heard many a person say that Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings were gay. Jack and his daughter are the two people he loves. Ennis gently folds it and puts it in the closet, where he keeps Jack's shirt. When she leaves, she leaves her sweater behind. But he's still emotionally closed off, and his daughter is hurting as a result. He's not a jerk, like Jack's dad, or a murderer, as his own father may have been. As far as distant dads go, Ennis is one of the better ones in this film. Why the change of heart? Well, Ennis realizes how damaging a distant father can be. He cracks open some wine and toasts his baby girl. Ennis starts to act distant, saying that he says he won't attend her wedding, but he soon reverses his decision. (Check out our Symbols section for more about these old garments.) Family Mattersīack at home, Ennis learns his daughter's engaged. But by this point, it's too late.Įnnis also finds his and Jack's shirts in the closet. He finally tries to understand the world from Jack's point of view. Inside Jack's childhood bedroom, Ennis opens the window, and looks at Jack's view.įor the first time in their relationship, Ennis experiences empathy for Jack. The poor, faded walls are matched by Jack's poor, faded parents. The Twist house is sad, dull, and entirely devoid of color. Jack's mom welcomes Ennis to Jack's room. Ennis seems to realize that he and Jack may have been happy, if only he hadn't been so cowardly. Also, after Ennis and Jack's big fight, it seems that Jack was planning on moving on with another man. He learns that Jack's dad is a homophobe, like his own dad was. When Ennis says that Brokeback is where he and Jack met, Lureen realizes that her dead husband was having an affair with Ennis this whole time, but we don't explore her feelings beyond the initial revelation.Įnnis attempts to recover Jack's ashes from his parents. Jack would have just been happy in a relationship with the man he loved, but in mid-20th Century Wyoming, gay rights was a dream as seemingly unattainable as living in a Disney movie. Knowing Jack, it might be some pretend place where bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring.' LUREEN: 'Thought Brokeback Mountain might be around where he grew up. Lureen doesn't know about Brokeback Mountain: Lureen tells Ennis Jack wanted his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain, showing that Jack loved Ennis, despite Ennis's difficult nature. Jack was probably the victim of a hate crime.

#SAM AND FRODO GAY BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN MOVIE#

The movie makes no attempt to tell us that Ennis is wrong, so his fear is likely true.

Jack could hit on the wrong person, and the man and his friends could beat Jack to death. It's easy to see how this could escalate: these men are looking at Jack with pure hatred. Plus, the film foreshadows Jack's death by murder in an earlier bar scene-Jack hits on a dude, and the cowboy leaves to talk to his friends in the corner.

Ennis is deeply afraid of being discovered as gay and being attacked. This vision is Ennis's fear manifesting itself. Lureen, Jack's wife, tells Ennis on the phone that Jack was changing a tire when it exploded and killed him.Īs Lureen talks, Ennis imagines Jack being beaten to death with a tire iron. Later, Ennis attempts to reconnect, but discovers Jack is dead. Jack realizes that he and Ennis will never be together, because Ennis is too afraid to live openly. Brokeback Mountain should be renamed Heartbroke Mountain after its heart wrenching ending.

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