Brokeback Mountain Themes

"Brokeback Mountain" is not a bedtime story for the kiddos. Why? Because sex and sexuality are front and center. Ennis and Jack, who would never in a million years describe themselves as gay (in fa...

When you're gay in Wyoming in the 1960s and 70s, repression is something we imagined you'd have to get used to. In a lot of ways, "Brokeback Mountain" is about the cost of that repression: how it c...

We spend a lot of time Ennis and Jack. Sure, "Brokeback Mountain" is only a few pages long, but it spans more then twenty years in these men's lives, so you can bet that they get to a fair amount o...

In "Brokeback Mountain," Ennis and Jack do have a choice. They can choose to be together, or they can remain apart. Other than that, they don't have many choices at all. And of course, the factors...

Ennis and Jack are cowboys in the classic sense: they're lean, tall, and not inclined to say a whole lot. But "Brokeback Mountain" throws a big wrench in that stereotype in that neither one sweeps...