chafostheory on Brokeback Mountain

chafostheory: "To me, [Brokeback Mountain] was something different, but equally difficult. I saw how Jack loved Ennis—without fear or compromise, giving himself totally and never getting back what he wanted—and it was a mirror of almost every relationship I’ve ever hadn. It hurt to watch Jack give himself so fully and blindly and you knew—you knew like my friends must know about me every time they see me get excited about a new guy—that he was going to be disappointed, and that that disappointment, with people, with life, with hope, would be the defining characteristic of his life.

Does that happen only to gay people? Absolutely not. Only to cowboys? No no no no no. It’s human, and it’s something I strongly identify with because of who I am, not because of how gay I am. So I guess that’s my Brokeback Mountain experience: this movie’s gonna mean a lot of things to a lot of people, and that’s because it’s beautiful. Universal. Timeless.

And that, I think, is what we call art."