I just noticed 2 different yet similar and, maybe, metaphorical scenes. They are brief:
First is of Ennis guiding the mules hauling the *baggage.
The second is of the same angled shot in the mountains, only with both Ennis and Jack years later. No mules. However, there's the (evidentual) notion that while there are no mules, there is still the baggage. And if not on the mules' backs than whose? I rather enjoy the comparative twin shots.
For me it also stimulates what may be obvious:
Brokeback had probably animalized them. It had done so perhaps the same way love keeps the poet drawing around the edges of nothing. Neither men knew where they were going, but they had something inside to finally trust. And the very reason they could trust it is probably just because they didn't recognize it. There they are following a path, and it was made for baggage; Nothing either were to do would ever be any worse than continuing 'til death having experienced a loveless fate. Fate came with baggage, and the path was love.
Love, though, isn't predictable. It's just something we follow, it's like a trap. Like society, but important. - The trail had landed Ennis a red, sorrowful star on the right (opposite the left) side of his head early the one Summer, and since then he probably holds his head a bit differently. But don't Yin/Yang do their thing? I mean Jack is with him this time so he'll probably get it next. Right?
The baggage probably still makes a mess..
The next time Ennis comes to that path, I'll bet he'll have read the four letter sign.
That's impressive of any animal.
