Reactions to Brokeback by friends, family & audiences

[tonydude]

  Thanks, Linda !  It does seem like we are in a different dimension than everybody else  .  And wherever Sonja got the term Brokieverse, she deserves credit for maintaining it.

[Sason]

Thanks, Tony!

I really love that term, it's so fitting!

Like you said, a different dimension.

[Oregondoggie]

We like to be up on the mountan...
"flying in the euphoric, bitter air... 
suspended above ordinary affairs."

But we ain't afraid of being seen.  No more.  No more.

[Sason]

^^^^^^^^^^^

That's a poem, Larry!

Very apt. I like it a lot.

[Cally]

And here you can see all the details:





The E and J are silver, I bought them in a normal jewelry shop.

The two beads, brown and blue, are a gift from a Brokie friend. I don't have to tell y'all what they represent, do I?  

The cowboy hat is also silver, and a gift from the same friend.

The Bettermost bean can is enamel on silver, I had it custom made.


Hope you're all satisfied by this description!  

How lovely, Sonja - the necklace and the associations.

[Cally]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments!

Yes, I love my necklace. I need it in my everyday life.
It reminds me of BBM, and helps me feel connected to my Brokie friends and my "other life", the Brokieverse.

My bean tin and the special stone are on the shelf here in this study in my new home.  And I thought of you and the Brokieverse I was whoofed into (although I didn't know either of those terms until today ) as I put them up.  Together with the other mementos of dear Brokie friends.

[Sason]

How lovely, Sonja - the necklace and the associations.

Thanks, Sara!

[Sason]

My bean tin and the special stone are on the shelf here in this study in my new home.  And I thought of you and the Brokieverse I was whoofed into (although I didn't know either of those terms until today ) as I put them up.  Together with the other mementos of dear Brokie friends.

 

[Vlad]

Well, first of all I havent watched the movie in the cinema so I havent seen with my eyes what was the reaction but I can assume a lot of it because in my country people still insult someone who is gay or lesbian, they just dont accept those people so the reaction on the film can just be assumed...

From my family the only persons who have watched the movie were my mother and my brother. As you could assume I couldnt watch the movie with her, even thought she has called me two or three times to watch it with her. I heard her laughing while the funny scenes were rolling and later on when the movie finished I have asked her did she like the movie, then the comedy starts... She started to talk about whole movie, not knowing that I have alredy watched it... After that she said that the movie is really great and that I must watch it , that its a great deal. I was so happy when I heard that, simply because shes my mother, it made me happy a lot back then. On the other hand my brother who is older than me, he has 23 years said just something that you couldnt believe, it is OK... I couldnt believe my hears but I didnt make any reaction on that what he said simply because of my own reasons. Later on, when i started converstaion on that subject he just said that a movie is fine but he just cant imagine how two man can love each other or worse have sex together and that kind of stuff. I couldnt believe that someone can watch on that movie like that, on that masterpiece of art!!! How can someone who has watched that movie be soo (i dont know is "cold" best word for that ). Im the thinking that anyone who has watched the Brokeback mountain cant be cold 100% and not feel a thing, his sexual orientation doesnt matter. And i forgot to say that he is not my real brother from my mom, i think thats called brother in law, if im right?

And offcourse i recommended the BBM to my friends to watch it because i wanted to hear what they think about it. I like to hear other people thinkings and points of views on specific things. My one very good friend talked to me after he watched the movie and said its great and that he loved it. But he offcourse had to say that for him scenes where man kisses a man were too much for him and that he didnt like that parts. Besides that, he concluded the conversation with it was a great movie.

For the conclusion of this post i want to say that no one with who i have talked about BBM didnt feelt those emotions and the storyline like i did. No one of them hasnt recieved that emotional hits, that special effect of the movie. They dont need to say that to me, i can feel that they havent. Anyone of them saw it just as a regular movie. I cant understand that? If anyone can enlighten me about this, please comment, i would like to hear oppinions of you guys too.

[BlueJeanDarlin]

... no one with who i have talked about BBM didnt feelt those emotions and the storyline like i did. No one of them hasnt recieved that emotional hits, that special effect of the movie. They dont need to say that to me, i can feel that they havent. Anyone of them saw it just as a regular movie. I cant understand that? If anyone can enlighten me about this, please comment, i would like to hear oppinions of you guys too.

It's been exactly the same for me, Vlad. Some of my friends really like the movie, others just think it's OK. No one was swept away like I was. I tried to explain to some of them, but no one really 'got it'.
I see it as a love story. In my country, The Netherlands, being gay (or lesbian) is generally accepted. Gay relationships aren't an issue here - so why am I so affected by those two cowboys? I honestly don't know. I have never seen a movie that touched me so much. Ennis and Jack's story is about love, period.

[Vlad]

It's been exactly the same for me, Vlad. Some of my friends really like the movie, others just think it's OK. No one was swept away like I was. I tried to explain to some of them, but no one really 'got it'.
I see it as a love story. In my country, The Netherlands, being gay (or lesbian) is generally accepted. Gay relationships aren't an issue here - so why am I so affected by those two cowboys? I honestly don't know. I have never seen a movie that touched me so much. Ennis and Jack's story is about love, period.

So I am not alone with this "situation". Its good to know. Well, in your country being gay or lesbian is ok but in mine its not, and i think that its not gona change soon so i am alredy thinking for some time how to go somewhere else to live in the future. I dont want to get off the topic, wanted to say that in your case also some people didnt feel anything like in mine. But, i think that some of them have felt something but maybe they just dont want to say, maybe theyre still in closet and they dont want to come out? Maybe they themselfs dont know? All in all, its imporatnt that we felt something and thats love betwen those two cowboys, thats the most important from my point of view.

[Cally]

Vlad, I think you'll find that nearly everyone on this forum, men and women, gay and straight, has had a reaction to the film and/or short story of Brokeback Mountain that other people can't understand - that we ourselves don't really understand, even. And I think that we are glad and proud to be different.

And you are not at all going off the topic to say how things are in your country...

  Sara

[kittykat]

Right And if one day you do want to move somewhere more tolerant, that's always an option when you have the money and time. Might make you feel better about it all

[kathy]

Vlad, I think you'll find that nearly everyone on this forum, men and women, gay and straight, has had a reaction to the film and/or short story of Brokeback Mountain that other people can't understand - that we ourselves don't really understand, even. And I think that we are glad and proud to be different.

And you are not at all going off the topic to say how things are in your country...

  Sara

I think this too.  I love it (and the boys) so much.     

kathy     

[BlueJeanDarlin]

Vlad, I think you'll find that nearly everyone on this forum, men and women, gay and straight, has had a reaction to the film and/or short story of Brokeback Mountain that other people can't understand - that we ourselves don't really understand, even. And I think that we are glad and proud to be different.

  Sara

You bet! 

(Sorry, couldn't think of a more appropriate quote)