Brokeback Mountain Book vs Movie Review

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]And Gyllenhaal said later in life, he said how in that moment when they filmed that scene, he didn't quite understand the magnitude of what Jack was saying because he was just too young and hadn't experienced enough of love and life and relationships to feel the weight. Hello and thank you for joining me here at Why the Book Wins where I compare books with their movie adaptations. My name is Laura and today I am talking about Brokeback Mountain. The book was published or it's not a book, it's a short story. It only takes like 30 minutes to read it, but published in 1998 written by Annie Proulx. And then the movie was released in 2005 and directed by Ang Lee. And to start out with which one wins, I'm going to say that the movie wins in this case.

[00:00:43]However, it does come from great bones because the short story is very moving and has great dialogue, but the movie wins over it in part because I love the way they expand on the story and give us more details. The book focuses more on Ennis as does the movie too, but the movie will show us things going on in Jack's life, whereas in the book, the only time we hear about what happens with Jack is either if it's something that happens when he is with Ennis or something that he tells Ennis about his life. Whereas in the movie, we're seeing the events that happen in Jack's life first hand. So I did prefer that and it made me feel closer to Jack. And then yeah, the performances of course too just make these characters feel so real and absolutely everybody, of course Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are the main two who are fantastic, but every body, all of their performances again just made the characters feel so real.

[00:01:34]And so that too is why I am saying the movie wins. And honestly, because the book is so short, and if anything, the movie gives us more than the story had, but the movie, it is very faithful to what we got in the story while expanding on it. And so in some ways, this might be controversial, but I feel like this is one where if you've seen the movie, I don't know if it's necessary to even read the book because the movie gives you more than the book had anyway. And I almost feel like I'm being disrespectful in saying that because the short story is where this all came from, right? The movie wouldn't exist without it. And yet, yeah, I I prefer the movie. And if you've seen the movie, I don't even know if the short story is worth reading.

[00:02:16]Again, it's short, so if you want to, sure, but uh yeah, you get the most from the film. But if you have read the short story and disagree with that sentiment, definitely let me know down below in the comments. And also, before I getting into the details of the plot, I just have to acknowledge how insane it is that this movie lost best picture to Crash of all things. Like that's the most notorious best picture winner ever, maybe. I mean, I don't know. I'd have to look through, you know, 100 years of best picture winners, but everybody knows that Crash is just such a dumb, horrible movie. And how did that I mean, it's not even a question of how did it win over Brokeback? It's obviously homophobia and that is why Brokeback didn't win. And apparently, like a year later, the Oscar voters were polled being like, who would you vote now to win best picture? And just 1 year later, Brokeback won. But it's like, okay, in some poll, that means nothing. Now they are saying they would give it to Brokeback, but who cares? Like they didn't give it to it when it actually mattered. So who cares how they feel about it a year later? Like shut up. So yeah, anyway, those are my spoiler-free thoughts. I loved the movie. I highly recommend it. If you have not seen it, go watch it. And from here on out, I will get into the details of the plot, which means there will be spoilers going forward. So, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist meet when they are 19 and hired to watch a herd of sheep up on Brokeback Mountain for a summer in the 1960s and they end up falling in love. But after the summer comes to an end, they go their separate ways. Ennis, he was engaged to a woman named Alma and he was set to marry her before even having met Jack. And he is someone who doesn't say much and is very reserved, but as their time on the mountain passes, you know, when he feels more and more at ease around Jack, we see him open up and talk more and just and be really tender with Jack. So we see this whole new side of him, like the side of him that he could be and maybe wants to be, but in normal life, he's just like so closed and tense. And Heath Ledger, even the way he speaks, it's like the words have to fight to get out because he just holds everything in. But yeah, seeing him be really sweet and tender and you know, joking around with Jack was great, but their relationship also does have a violence to it in part because of their rough nature. But even more so, I would say it is because of Ennis's pent-up anger and aggression due to him suppressing this part of himself and seeming uncomfortable in his own skin.

[00:04:46]And we see him lash out at strangers on multiple occasions and he lashes out at Jack. And as they part ways after that first summer on Brokeback, when he is driving away, Ennis has to pull over because he feels nauseous and he tries to throw up, but nothing will come out.

[00:05:00]And we see this in the movie as well.

[00:05:02]But he's feeling sick because I mean, there he's parting ways with Jack and they have not committed to ever see each other again. And so it's basically like just cutting this person out of his life and acting as if what they had wasn't as special as it was. But also again, he was free to be himself around Jack, but leaving Jack in this way means now Ennis is going off to live the life that is expected of him rather than the life he wants to lead. And it makes him feel sick going back to being someone that he really isn't. And I felt that way before, when you make a choice that you feel obligated to make, but it's not really what you want. And yeah, like you feel sick to your stomach because you're going against your better instincts, you know, and feeling coerced by society or yourself to do this thing or to be someone that you don't actually want to be. And at one point, he tells Jack a story about how growing up there had been two guys who lived on a ranch together and like they were, you know, tough cowboy ranchers. And yet, they were two men living together. And so, at least one of the men were brutally beaten by a group of locals. And Ennis's father makes a point to bring Ennis and his brother to come see this guy's dead body. So the homophobia and violence that was likely to happen against someone who had the audacity to live that way was ingrained in him from a young age. And so yeah, he leaves and goes and marries Alma and they eventually have two daughters together.

[00:06:29]And 4 years after that summer at Brokeback, he gets a postcard from Jack who has found out where Ennis lives and he's like, "Hey, was thinking about coming through. Are you okay with that?"

[00:06:40]And Ennis replies with a postcard that just says, "You bet." And I just loved that because Ennis is a man of few words, but his excitement is evident even just with those two words. And in both, when Jack shows up, Ennis meets him outside before bringing him into his apartment that he shares with Alma. So he meets him outside and the door is closed and he just can't contain himself and he and Jack kiss. But unbeknownst to him, Alma had opened the door and she saw them kiss and then she's in shock and she shuts the door again and goes back inside. And he has no idea that she saw that. And I of course have a lot to say about Alma, so we will be coming back around to her later. And from here, Ennis and Jack start a relationship and Jack is always the one who has to travel to meet up with Ennis. And Jack is very different from Ennis, which is part of the reason why they make such a great match. He is a rodeo cowboy who he's not a chatterbox, but he also isn't as closed off as Ennis. And while both, it seems, were raised by stern fathers, we get more of a look into Jack's childhood, especially in the end when Ennis goes to see his parents. And at one point, this is unique to the book, we hear a childhood memory of Jack's from when his father severely beat him and then afterwards, he pissed all over him, meaning the father pissed all over Jack. And so obviously, his father is a horrible piece of [ __ ] person. And in the movie, we do not get this flashback and yet, when Ennis goes to see them in the end, like just what we see of his dad, meaning Jack's dad, and the meek desperation in the mom tells us all we need to know about Jack's upbringing and that this guy is horrible. And honestly, like it just makes you love Jack all the more, right? That he was raised by this horrible person and yet he himself ended up being so good and loving. And I will be returning to the parents as well in a little bit. But uh when they are on Brokeback Mountain that first summer, Jack is the one who makes the first move, but he was taking things slow. And Ennis, he's the one where he, you know, he's kind of like, "If we're doing this, then we're doing this." And so Ennis, he kind of takes over and like really gets things escalating, which I thought was interesting. But the next day, both of them, they clarify like, "You know, I'm not queer." "Yeah, me neither." "You know, this is just some weird one-off thing." Like, "Yeah, same for me, too."

[00:09:05]And so lying to themselves and each other. But anyway, after that first summer on Brokeback, Jack, he goes back to Texas and he struggles for a while before meeting Laureen who has a wealthy father who owns a farm machine company.

[00:09:18]And Jack marries her and is set up pretty well. However, his father-in-law strongly dislikes him. And we hear about this in the book. But in the movie again, we get these scenes first hand.

[00:09:29]And in particular, a notable moment is when they have been married for over 10 years and Jack off the TV while they eat dinner because his son is distracted.

[00:09:39]And so Jack is like, "Oh, you know, no TV during dinner." But then the father-in-law goes and turns the TV back on and they have this back and forth before finally Jack yells at him and asserts his authority, which works and clearly Laureen is proud of him. And yeah, just in general, like I said, we see more of Jack first hand in the movie. And I really liked these parts.

[00:09:58]And again, it made him feel even more real and how he, as we will get into, he doesn't shy away from who he is as much as Ennis does. Like we see him trying to buy a beer for this other guy in the rodeo, and the guy can like sense what Jack is wanting or doing or something. I mean, he's just being nice, but the guy reads into it and he like shuts it down. And so, again, just all that we see of Jack just made me feel for him all the more. And often times people talk about Heath Ledger's performance and how incredible he was, and he is. I mean, also he's dead, so there's that, too. But Jake Gyllenhaal was incredible in this movie. But yeah, despite Jack marrying a woman, he isn't as repressed as Ennis, and he through the years tries to get Ennis to agree to move onto a ranch together multiple times, many, many times, but Ennis always has an excuse. I mean, he tells him the childhood story being like, you know, if we do that, one or both of us are going to get brutally killed. But then also, he'll blame it on like his marriage or something. Like he always has some reason. But ultimately, it's his own fear and repression that keeps him from living the life he truly wants to live and from being with the man he truly loves. And in the movie, we see, in the book, we hear that Jack takes trips down to Mexico to sleep with men because Ennis is becoming less and less available through the years. And in the movie, we also see him start a relationship with a man who also has a wife, and it seems because when Ennis goes to see Jack's parents in the end, Jack's dad says something like, "Oh, so you're Ennis Del Mar?" Like, "Yeah, Jack used to come here and he would say, you know, me and Ennis are going to come here and whip this place into shape."

[00:11:34]But then through the years, he eventually brought some other guy to the ranch. So, this guy came and met his parents, and this guy Jack was saying like, "We're going to whip this ranch into shape, me and this guy now." So again, Jack is okay being who he is, and since Ennis is so resistant, as time goes on, he looks to other men. And also, it's interesting to note that in the movie, he lies to Ennis, and he tells Ennis that he is having an affair with the wife, when really he's having an affair with the man, but he doesn't want to admit to Ennis that there's another man he has a relationship with, right? Whereas yeah, Ennis has never been with any man outside of Jack. But I want to mention a scene. I know I'm jumping around in the timeline, but after Ennis gets divorced, he writes Jack and tells him that he's getting divorced, and Jack beelines it to Ennis, and he's like, "Hey, so you're divorced, we can get a ranch together. Like this is This is incredible. We can be together now."

[00:12:29]Because his marriage was one of the things he would blame as to why he couldn't do that. But as soon as Jack shows up, Ennis is like, "Oh, I mean, I was letting you know I was getting divorced, but I didn't mean I didn't mean that we could move in together, you know, like I got my kids, blah, blah, blah." And so from here, Jack drives off, and uh it's just such a heartbreaking scene. And then when they have been together for almost 20 years in this secret relationship, after their latest meet up, which they always meet up in like their camping, basically, on Brokeback, which again, like their their relationship, it's never in reality, right? Cuz it's always going away and going camping and being on Brokeback Mountain again, and it's never in the reality of life, right? And so, the juxtaposition of when he's out living his life in the city in the world versus what life is like for them when they're together up in nature, like it's just so different. And Ennis is so different, too, right? These two versions of himself. And um yeah, anyway. So, when they have been seeing each other for almost 20 years, Ennis tells Jack that he can't see him again as soon as he thought because he has work obligations that he can't get out of. And Jack is upset, but to be fair to Ennis, Jack married into a wealthy family. And so Ennis says like, "Hey, you're rich. You forgot what it's like to be broke all the time, and I have child support." You know, like he has to prioritize his job.

[00:13:50]And this is when Ennis confronts Jack asking if he's been to Mexico and how he knows what happened in Mexico. And when Jack confirms that yes, he has been visiting Mexico, we read this exchange beginning with Ennis saying, "I got to say this to you one time, Jack, and I ain't fooling. What I don't know," said Ennis, "all them things I don't know could get you killed if I should come to know them." Again, meaning of like what goes on in Mexico, because he knows Jack goes to Mexico to have sex with men, but he's saying like, "If I ever found out explicitly what you're doing, like I'd kill you," essentially.

[00:14:25]But then Jack replies, "Try this one," said Jack, "and I'll say it just one time. Tell you what, we could have had a good life together, a real good life.

[00:14:33]You wouldn't do it, Ennis, so what we got now is Brokeback Mountain.

[00:14:36]Everything built on that, it's all we got, boy. [ __ ] it all, so I hope you know that if you don't never know the rest. Count the damn few times we've been together in 20 years. Measure the short leash you keep me on. Then ask me about Mexico, and then tell me you'll kill me for needing it and not hardly ever getting it. You got no idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. make it down a couple of high altitude [ __ ] once a year. You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a horse son [ __ ] I wish I knew how to quit you." Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter, the years of things unsaid and now unsayable, admissions, declarations, shames, guilt, fears rose around them.

[00:15:12]Ennis stood as if heartshot, face gray and deep-lined, grimacing, eyes screwed shut, fists clenched, legs caving, hit the ground on his knees. "Jesus," said Jack. "Ennis?" But before he was out of the truck trying to guess if it was a heart attack or the overflow of an incendiary rage, Ennis was back on his feet, and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been. For what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved. And yeah, this is a great moment in the book, and it's a great scene in the movie, particularly when Jack is just he's putting his heart out there, saying all of this to Ennis, who is turned around, and the camera shows Ennis from Jack's perspective, and it's just Ennis's back and neck. And so, how alone Jack feels as he is laying it all out there, and Ennis just refuses to confront the truth of this. But then in the movie, Ennis collapses and cries, and Jack holds him. Whereas in the book, you know, I just read what happened. But yeah, just a heartbreaking moment all the way around. And also, Ledger and Gyllenhaal were young when they made this movie. Ledger was around 25, Jake Gyllenhaal was around 23. But then the characters they're playing in this scene right here, they're almost 40 years old.

[00:16:26]And Gyllenhaal said later in life, he said how in that moment when they filmed that scene, he didn't quite understand the magnitude of what Jack was saying because he was just too young and hadn't experienced enough of love and life and relationships to feel the weight of what Jack is saying to Ennis and to feel the weight of this situation they're in. And so, it wasn't until he got older that he was reflecting back on this movie and this scene, and he's like, "Wow, like that's what that meant." And so, that's a credit to his performance and the direction, because even though he had a hard time maybe really understanding and feeling this in the moment, he was able to say those lines so honestly as Jack.

[00:17:07]And then Ledger's performance was, of course, incredible, and they were both just so amazing in this. And I know Heath Ledger won his Oscar for the Joker, which of course he was fantastic as. But yeah, like he definitely should have I don't know who won Best Actor that year, but yeah, Ledger and Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams, they were all just so good in this. Speaking of Michelle Williams, she plays Alma.

[00:17:29]And so, we [clears throat] see her view at times in the book, but as is the case with everyone, she was even more fleshed out here in the film. And the audience, we are wanting Jack and Ennis to be together, but I love that the book and film still show how this relationship and the repressed feelings of Ennis, all it does is bring pain and sadness to everyone, himself, Jack, Alma, as well as his later girlfriend in the movie played by Linda Cardellini, who is not in the book at all. But like I said, Alma sees them kiss the first time, you know, they reunite. So, she knows what's going on. And in the movie, we see how she had been up basically all night and is emotionally wrecked knowing that he was spending the night with this man.

[00:18:08]And then when he comes back in the morning, he just rushes into grab his stuff, and he's like, "Hey, we're going fishing, we're camping, like be back in a few days. See you." And so, just how disrespectful and hurtful that is to treat your wife like that with just no regard at all. And we also have seen that outside of Jack, he just doesn't seem to respect his wife very much because she has a job at a grocery store, and yet we see him come in and bring the two daughters and just dump them off with her because he's like, "Hey, something came up with work, I got to go." And she's like, "What? Like I'm at my job right now, though. I can't just take them." But he gives her this look being like, "Come on. My job is more important than yours, blah, blah, blah." Like his look says so much. And so yeah, he just leaves the kids with her and goes off to do his job, and we see one of the daughters make a mess cuz she pulls a can and it spills everything. But the manager is really nice, and she's just, you know, feeling so awkward and ashamed and embarrassed about her kids, but the manager is like, "No, like you're fine. Go Go take care of your kids. Call your sister. I'll clean this up. Like you're good." And this is the man that we later see she ends up marrying. And so, I do like that we get this moment where we actually do like this guy, right? Cuz he was so kind to her in this moment. And during that argument that has that quote that I read earlier when they're older, Ennis tells Jack like, "Hey, the reason I was more available in our early years together was because back then, I would just up and quit a job and run off to go spend time with you. Whereas now, I'm trying to be more responsible, and I need to prioritize work and keep a steady job."

[00:19:41]And so, when you think about that, too, from the perspective of Alma, like she was with a man who was so unstable emotionally, but also his jobs were so unstable cuz he would just quit them left and [clears throat] right and then go off for days at a time. And so, yeah, that would just be very stressful to be married to someone like that. And in both, there is a point in which he tells him that she doesn't want to risk having a third baby because they're like about to have sex, and so she's wanting him to wear a condom. And so, she says she doesn't want to risk having a third baby, and he gets offended being like, "You don't You don't want to have another one of my kids?" And she says, "I'd have them if you'd support them."

[00:20:16]Which is a pretty cutting thing to say.

[00:20:20]And from here in the movie, we then cut to them getting a divorce. But in the book, it was worse because she says that, and he's like, "Fine. You know, forget condoms. Like, I don't need to touch you ever again. Like, there you go. You're getting what you want." And so then, yeah, just He can be very cold to her, obviously, in both book and movie. But Yeah, so they just stop having sex, and then eventually she divorces him. And then later, when she and her new husband have him over for dinner, you know, to be with the kids on Thanksgiving, she confronts him in the kitchen about his fishing trips with Jack, and how a few years in, she looked at his fishing bucket, and the rod still had the tag on. And whenever he saw Jack, he always claimed they went fishing. And he would always come home and be like, "Oh, we caught a ton of fish." But he would never bring any fish back. And so, yeah, she checks the fishing bucket, and the rod is brand new, never been used, and this is years into his fishing trips. And so then, she puts a note at the end of his fishing rod saying, "Hi, Ennis. Bring home fish." And so, he goes off again to go fishing. And when he comes home, he's like, "Oh, yeah, we caught a ton of fish." And she sneaks a look, and she sees that the note is still there on the end of his rod, and it hasn't even been seen, let alone touched. And so So, she And again, she saw him kiss, so she knows that this is a sexual relationship he has with Jack. And he in this moment gets violent with her, and that is the last they see of each other. And so again, my heart went out to Alma for being in this situation, and how difficult that would be. Toxic masculinity that doesn't allow men to be who they want, to be who they are, it just hurts everybody, right? The man, obviously, but just everybody else, too.

[00:21:58]And given Ennis is the one who has this fear of being brutally killed for being gay, and also seeing he himself has like such rage inside of him, and we see on multiple occasions, we see him lash out at total strangers. And so given all of this, plus after the divorce, he is alone and just seems so sad and isolated. And so, given all of this, you kind of would suspect that he is the one who would end up dying in one way or another. And yet, it is Jack who ends up dying in the end. Ennis gets a postcard returned to him saying deceased, and so he calls Laureen, and she tells him a tire exploded in his face while he was driving home. And by the time anyone came by, he had drowned in his own blood, basically. And In the movie, when Ennis hears this, we see him envisioning Jack being brutally beaten and murdered, and then it was just blamed on this tire exploding, but he believes he was actually murdered. Whereas in the book, when he hears this story, he's thinking like, "I mean, it could have been that, or it could have been murder." And it isn't until he meets Jack's parents, he feels there is no doubt about how he died because Jack's dad basically heavily implies that he knew Jack was gay and was none too happy about it.

[00:23:09]Plus, we also know that Aguirre, the guy who initially hired them in the beginning, he also thought that they had a gay relationship going on. And so, enough people knew he was gay, and Ennis then, you know, at this point, he has no doubt that it was murder, and he was beaten, and it was not an exploding tire. And in the movie, Anne Hathaway filmed this scene when she is on the phone telling Ennis about this, she filmed this scene two different ways. In one take, she filmed it as if her character truly believed that this is what happened. She did not know Jack was gay, she just thought this tire exploded in his face. But then in another take, she filmed it as her character knowing that Jack was gay and knowing the relationship he had with Ennis. And so, Ang Lee, he cut these two takes together in order to make it very ambiguous as to how much Laureen did and didn't know.

[00:23:57]And Laureen, she's a smart woman, so I feel like she probably did know, personally. But she tells Ennis that Jack had said he wanted his ashes spread on Brokeback Mountain because that was where he had the best memories. But Laureen, she's like, "I I just sent his ashes to his parents though, because I don't even know where Brokeback Mountain is or if it's even a real place." And so, this is when Ennis goes to see Jack's childhood home, and the father refuses to spread Jack's ashes on Brokeback Mountain. And he's like, "Jack thinks he's too good to go in the family plot. Well, that's where he's going, whether he likes it or not." And then Ennis, he goes up to see Jack's bedroom, which the mother has kept the same. And he had lost or forgotten a shirt of his from that first summer on Brokeback Mountain. But in Jack's room, he sees the shirt that he had left behind, and he sees that Jack had kept it. And Jack placed Ennis's shirt inside his own. And so, Ennis takes these two shirts, but in the movie, he switches them so that now, instead, Jack's shirt is inside of Ennis's, which evokes the thought that he is holding Jack, right? Whereas Jack had made the shirts, so he was holding Ennis. But in both book and movie, he hangs up these two shirts in his trailer, and next to it, he pins a photo of Brokeback Mountain. And the book starts starts at the end. So, we see Ennis in his trailer, and we see these two shirts, and he's talking about dreaming of Jack. And he's also thinking about how he is going to have to move out of this trailer and move in with his married daughter because basically like the changing times, like something is changing with his work, and things are changing. And so, that is how the book starts. And then at the very end, after we get this story, we come back to him at this moment in his trailer with his two shirts, and we hear about how he has started to dream about Jack, and we read, "There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it. And if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it." And that is something that Ennis says to Jack in the movie at one point. He's like, "If you can't fix it, you've got to stand it." And that's the very last line of the book. Whereas in the film, this ends with his oldest daughter coming to see him. And we have seen that he has a limited relationship with his girls, but this daughter in particular, Alma Jr., she has tried to have a bond with him through the years.

[00:26:15]And so, she comes to see him and tells him that she's getting married, and she asks if he will come to the wedding. And at first, he says he has to work, and you can see that this is the response she had expected, but how she's still heartbroken by it. However, he then is like, "You know, I can tell them I can't make it though, because my little girl's getting married." And her face lights up when he says this. And then she leaves, and we see him looking at his two shirts and the postcard of Brokeback Mountain, and he says, like he's getting emotional, and he says, "Jack, I swear."

[00:26:46]And then that's how the movie ends. And I interpret the movie ending as saying that while he was too fearful to live the life he truly wanted with Jack, now, after all is said and done, after Jack's death, he has like turned a corner, and he has become resolute to live the life that he wants to live, and to not always shut people out, and to be vulnerable, right? And to be there for others. And it's scary to be vulnerable, and yet it's worth it, right? Opening himself up to feeling things and being himself. But also, I think too, again, Jack was constantly like reaching to Ennis and just like wanting him so badly, like wanting to live life together with him, and Ennis was just constantly shutting him down. Like, they would see each other on Brokeback, sure, and yet he would always shut Jack down about actually having a life together. And so, this ending seems to be him maybe finally I mean, he He proclaimed his love to Jack, but now he's doing it um maybe more directly. And this had been something he was like hiding from his entire life and repressing and wanting to keep it a secret. And his life on the mountain with Jack was just like this total totally separate thing from his life he lived in normally. And so, maybe now he is allowing it to come together, and he is no longer ashamed of the love he had for Jack, and is able to uh I don't know, be more proud of it, right?

[00:28:08]And not hide it. And again, he was never wanting to actually confront certain things, and he was always living in fear and conformity. And Yeah, anyway. So, I feel like this end scene kind of encapsulates all of that in the movie.

[00:28:22]And so, I do prefer the movie ending over the book ending. But the book was good, too. Uh and so, yeah, that wraps it up for Brokeback Mountain. Let me know your thoughts down below in the comments. And I know earlier I said that Ennis is the one that you could potentially suspect is, you know, if one of them are going to die, you might suspect that Ennis is the one that would have something happen to him. But I will say from a more like technical storytelling perspective, stories generally are about someone changing in one way or another, right? There stories where a character stays the same, but usually the point of a story is to show someone changing. And considering Jack embraces who he is for the most part, considering the time period, and Ennis is the one who shies away from it and is so repressed, I know I keep saying that word, but he represses his feelings. And so, given that, someone who is more familiar with how storytelling works, they might have guessed that Jack is the one who would die, that way it would trigger a change in Ennis, right? And then you get that satisfying moment at the end. And so anyway, I I I guess I just thought that was interesting to think about in relation to Brokeback Mountain. Yeah, I guess I don't have any other thoughts. I thought the movie was fantastic. It's very heartbreaking, of course, but also it is one of those movies where after you watch it, like it really makes you look at your own life, and you're like, "Am I living the life I really want?

[00:29:43]Like, I don't want to become like Ennis.

[00:29:45]I don't want to be 40 years old and barely embracing who I am, right? Like I don't want to wait that long. 40 is still young, but you know what I'm saying. So it is a very powerful movie.

[00:29:55]So yeah, thank you for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe and I will see you next time. Bye.