Stunning shoots, stunning acts, shocking reality

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2015)

Ang Lee, apparently saw some beautiful camera shoots and used them to make the photography of the film beautiful and effective. If we consider the part of nature on the storyline (I mean the effect of Brokeback Mountain on Ennis and Jack), we can see that it was a very well thought idea. The nature of the mountain refers to the nature of humans.
Homosexuality isn't the only thing about this movie, actually. Ang Lee used It as tool to tell a different story. A story of a person's suppressions in his emotional world. Ennis' childhood memories, his traumas lead him to a person who is terrified of society, what It can do. That's why Ennis runs from a life where Jack and him could live. He tries to suppress his feelings about Jack by getting married and having children. And so does Jack. They both try to suppress their homosexuality but they fail. They can resist their nature. The nature that Brokeback Mountain unveiled.
Society's poison of making people similar and not allowing differences leads Ennis and Jack to a life that they have to hide, suffer from not being themselves. This film is a criticism of society. Ang Lee uses reality so effective that you find yourself shocked and upset by how things happened in Ennis and Jack's lives over the years.
Ang Lee used slow scenes and preferred less talking between characters so face impressions, gestures and emotions can talk. And he succeeded. This is a minimal film, in that context. Ang Lee's succinct wording crushes audience's chests with painful truths (the truths that society thinks correct) and how we are vulnerable against the people we live together.
At the end of the film; even though Jack's family embraces Jack's nature (not entirely), they refuse to scatter his ashes in Brokeback Mountain. These lines are a the perfect summary of the main idea in the movie. Even the society sees and allows homosexuality (or any other kinds of differences), they will never truly accept people's true natures.
The film slapped the reality that sadly we will never can be ourselves in any society because our value judgments will always effect each other. We will always suppress somethings and It will kill, eventually, us inside. We may see ourselves "living" on the outside; but we will be dead inside. We will regret for the things that we couldn't live, when we look back on our lives. Just like Ennis did. So, whatever we do; we have do It freely so that we won't regret not doing It. We only live once.
As an asexual person, I'm so happy that I'm living without labels. I was bullied, insulted, considered odd, suppressed...at the end, I was still myself. And If I get killed because of just being different, I will die being myself. Society can't make me somebody I'm not. I'm not rewarded with this life to live, due to other people's thoughts and requests
I hope we all live a life where we can live as ourselves. Like the way it should be.