Topic: "There are places we can never return"

[anne]

I think they had there own Brokeback. And even if they never had returned there, they had it in their minds.


And fact, that Jack wanted to be barry on brokeback makes me cry...

I think, Brokeback was best  thing in their lives.  That was only place, where they could be free.

It was their dream... Dream that came true only once in their life... 

[smartestsonia]

Even if they couldnt go back to that place they had the solace that they were once there and could live the way they wanted to even if it was only for sometime..u know in life we meet so many people and have so many experiences and we wish a few would last forever but due to circumtstances they dont...although regretting them wont make sense....we will always cherish those moments and be grateful that they did happened..
this is exaclty what Ennis has in his mind in the end of the film..he knew now that he could'nt be with jack as he is gone....in the end of the film he is hugging Jacks shirt and smelling it to get the smell of Jack and brokebcak mountain..he is left with those memories and what all he shared with jack....it breaks my heart that they could no be together but I know that Ennis has every moment frozen in his mind he spend with jack.. Even if he cant go back in time he knows that Jack will always be a part of him...

[jedibarrister]

The section where they leave Signal reminds me forcibly of the expulsion from Eden in "Parasice Lost" - but then there seems to be a whole Biblical thread running through the movie. Of course you can never go back to Eden - it is lost irrevocably. They did return to some of the other places catalogued  (an ancient and classic technique, sort of incantatory), for example, the Wind Rivers. but to return to Brokeback would have been a travesty. There was a uniqueness and innocence about it that could never have been recovered in other, pre-arranged visits, I think.
I asssumed that the scenery in the later movie shots was the same area and that they'd been shot in the same place to save money, mundane but possibly necessary.

I read an essay that did the exact same thing: Ennis and Jack as a modern day Adam and Eve with Aguirre as the devil watching them.  When the Aguirre sent them away from BBM, they never returned.  It was also this essay that pointed out to me that Aguirre watched them for a full 10 minutes while they finished and zipped up.  What does that say about Aguirre?  The author of that essay thought it was homosexual envy...these boys could have what was denied him.  Not sure I'd go that far with the metaphor.

[tpe]

I read an essay that did the exact same thing: Ennis and Jack as a modern day Adam and Eve with Aguirre as the devil watching them.  When the Aguirre sent them away from BBM, they never returned.  It was also this essay that pointed out to me that Aguirre watched them for a full 10 minutes while they finished and zipped up.  What does that say about Aguirre?  The author of that essay thought it was homosexual envy...these boys could have what was denied him.  Not sure I'd go that far with the metaphor.

But an interesting metaphor at that...