... and i feel almost mad at jack which is odd even more so then i am mad for somethings ennis did because it really hurts me when jack says all we got is brokeback mountain because that wasnt all they had they had an amazing love that was greater then anything on earth oh well the pic is very poetic and beautiful i should probably leave it at that. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
This one is hard for me to swallow, too. But Jack and Ennis always were poor at speaking of
love; Jack's bold remark "what we got now
is brokeback mountain!" is the confession of a man who is dying without Ennis, that he cannot have what Ennis had given him, this Brokeback Mountain, this
love. He could finally acknowledge that love is what had binded them together forever, but he still hadn't utilized the L section of Webster's dictionary.
It's also heartbreaking for me to know that Ennis couldn't hold back his tears then. On absorbing Jack's desperate language of love, Ennis' guard of both himself and Jack had become vulnerable; then the stab of Jack suggesting that
the only love they both had could be taken away, with "I wish I knew how to quit you" going straight into his back. I think that's why he had to cry as he fumbled to respond - Jack cracked his shell, and the
then why don't you and
... just let me be, huh! were a frightened little Ennis, a kid who'd been lead to Earl.
Every second of the final confrontation is an eerie parallel to what Ennis was never "allowed" to have, and to know of a father who (un)consciously grounded his child from "Brokeback Mountain" is arguably more disgusting than dead Earl himself.
The more I watch Jack and Ennis fight in that scene, the easier I am on Ennis. I am fairly irresponsible in some aspects but relate to Ennis' busted but ever so human morale. It shows not just his tough exterior but also an inner strength, and he wraps it around Jack so silently (i.e. dozy embrace..) throughout their snowy mountaintop affair; it's no wonder Jack may realize what they have up there is love.
