![]() Jack, who has done some rodeo riding, is a little more outgoing. Ennis is a boy of so few words he can barely open his mouth to release them he learned to be guarded and fearful long before he knew what he feared. Their story begins in Wyoming in 1963, when Ennis ( Heath Ledger) and Jack ( Jake Gyllenhaal) are about 19 years old and get a job tending sheep on a mountainside. "You know I ain't queer," Ennis tells Jack after their first night together. The movie wisely never steps back to look at the larger picture, or deliver the "message." It is specifically the story of these men, this love. ![]() It could be about two women, or lovers from different religious or ethnic groups - any "forbidden" love. It is the story of a time and place where two men are forced to deny the only great passion either one will ever feel. "Brokeback Mountain" has been described as "a gay cowboy movie," which is a cruel simplification. ![]() It's because Ennis and Jack love each other and can find no way to deal with that. ![]()
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