This film is excellent, firstly because it focuses on the most sincere feelings in people's hearts, and secondly because it is the first mainstream film about same-sex love in film history, bearing the feelings and grievances of many shady people. Secondly, they also benefited from excellent original novels and superb scene scheduling skills of directors. They use a large shady background to compare their inner passion, the most plain narrative and the deepest acacia, which makes the love in the story particularly tragic and sad, and people can't help but be moved.
An excellent film must focus on people's deepest feelings.
In this world, what can move the audience most and make the audience sing most is always the most sincere feelings in our hearts. In the movie, 20 years of love between Jack and Ennis can easily make us cry. Thanks to the director Ang Lee, when describing such an unacceptable emotion, he didn't use any spectacle technique, but actually started from the most basic love in human heart, so that the audience of this film was no longer limited to LGBT groups, but extended to all sentient beings. In the process of watching movies, people unconsciously put down their prejudices and open their hearts.
The director's precise use of film language
In the final analysis, movies are often expressed by directors. It is director Ang Lee's familiarity and insight into this story, as well as his exquisite skills in film scheduling, that can make this story show such a different kind of sadness and beauty.
1) The contrast between the cool external environment background and the fiery inner feelings.
Brokeback Mountain, the main body of the story, is the pasture in winter, the cold white sheep and the endless green, all of which give people a sense of seclusion, remoteness and depression. The season of the story is also winter, which is a season without temperature. In the cold north wind on the mountain, the only warmth is their enthusiasm for each other, but this warmth is so fragile in such a vast and boundless cold.
2) The plain narration of the whole film and the unforgettable lovesickness between lovers are another contrast.
Brokeback Mountain has no particularly fierce conflict. More precisely, director Ang Lee deliberately avoided those intense scenes and told an unforgettable love story with a plain narrative style. Even Jack's death has no positive description, but it is this way of avoiding fierce conflict that makes people feel more thrilling behind all the calm. After watching the movie, for a long time, I can't forget the shirt that Ennis found after Jack's death twenty years ago, which was carefully kept by Jack. There was no crying or other hysterical expression, but the jacket that Jack kept beside Ennis properly told us that there was no need to express their piety.
At that time, their stories were not accepted by the world, and their feelings offended people. The director skillfully brought the suffocating oppression of the whole environment to the audience with plain narration and cold background, which made us feel the heavy pressure outside the play, so heavy that we couldn't say out loud how much lovesickness we had. Touching people's hearts with true feelings, telling stories with exquisite directing art, and combining with the shaping of roles to conquer the critical eyes of the audience are the cleverness of Ang Lee and the cleverness of this film.