Annie wrote things certain ways. Ang replicated some things exactly, and others not. He even added his own (or the screenwriters), and rendered many scenes both slightly and hugely interpretable. There's a reason there was a film made of the SS, I'm assuming. Truth is, if one person wants to entertain slightly different understandings of the story without sacrificing their personal perception of it, they can go from SS to film. It's probably easier to grasp than juggling the intricate motives of each process (SS, screenplay, film director, etc). Of course it varies, some want it all. Probably though, most want to rest with what they're closest to home with.
To me it seems befitting that Ang utilized the story's wide open emotional capacity to reach the wider audience of film goers rather than that of the book readers. And speaking on that sometimes too conventional yet universal plane, I trust that sexuality was made for intricate thinking but just wasn't born to resonate like the stark naked brilliance of true love. None of us is about to change our beliefs or whatever you want to say, of (homo)sexuality. Nonetheless, we can't ignore this part of the story. It plays its part, right? At least we know we have a place to go, and that we all respect each other's sex and sexuality however it's grown into/with us or vise versa.
I know I'm not alone here with the idea that, at the least, Ennis was granted an opportunity to love the best way he ever could, on Brokeback away from the clenches of hate; and I say that because everywhere but the mountain, hate in an instance stretched over the whole planet Ennis knew of. He had very little leeway, he was a small man in a sterdy cage. After departure, in the alley as he punches the wall, he is like a wild rat being fingered through the bars and scared of what was getting a hold of him.
Jack had put a hand on his inner self that summer, and every individual reacts and personally relates to that connection -- it's hard to break that bond.
There are times when it's hard to grasp the other viewer's perception, but more and more I can only be inspired by this. It's likewise to know that this provocative power exists in any piece of media or anything, ever. And to think ... some people only know this feeling through tangible substances like drugs for instance, or, strictly sex, guilty pleasures of a finite earth. But Brokeback represents what goes on forever, and I don't want to ever take it for granted.
At the "end", despite this, that and sexuality, Ennis just doesn't want to take love for granted, I swear.
Well I'm not exactly beaming with relevance, so excuse me.
-- Does anyone else wonder how Jack's scene in the bathroom with his father's spray of abuse would have played somewhere in the movie? Would Ang have been able to do this without taking away from the story, or would it fail the film?
As we all dive deeper into it, I have a difficult time ignoring my occasional scavenge hunt for missing scenes/elements.
