![]() ![]() Knowing Jack, it might be some pretend place where bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring." LUREEN: "Thought Brokeback Mountain might be around where he grew up. Lureen doesn't know about Brokeback Mountain: Lureen tells Ennis Jack wanted his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain, showing that Jack loved Ennis, despite Ennis's difficult nature. Jack was probably the victim of a hate crime. The movie makes no attempt to tell us that Ennis is wrong, so his fear is likely true. Jack could hit on the wrong person, and the man and his friends could beat Jack to death. It's easy to see how this could escalate: these men are looking at Jack with pure hatred. Plus, the film foreshadows Jack's death by murder in an earlier bar scene-Jack hits on a dude, and the cowboy leaves to talk to his friends in the corner. ![]() Ennis is deeply afraid of being discovered as gay and being attacked. This vision is Ennis's fear manifesting itself. Lureen, Jack's wife, tells Ennis on the phone that Jack was changing a tire when it exploded and killed him.Īs Lureen talks, Ennis imagines Jack being beaten to death with a tire iron. Later, Ennis attempts to reconnect, but discovers Jack is dead. Jack realizes that he and Ennis will never be together, because Ennis is too afraid to live openly. ![]() Brokeback Mountain should be renamed Heartbroke Mountain after its heart wrenching ending. ![]()
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