How do you define love? Is it the butterflies in your stomach, the goosebumps on your skin or the beating of your heart in your chest? Brokeback Mountain is one of those classic films that shows us that it is all that and much more.
It is a kind of magic that has no trick, a feeling that you can not suppress. It is a river of emotions where it is often better to surrender your body to the current rather than trying to swim against it.
Unfortunately for Ennis and Jack, their love is something that they'll have to keep a secret for their own sake. Ennis has to lead a double life because he's afraid and that fear stems from the world he was raised in. A world where love has only one form that is acceptable and anything other than that is disgusting and filthy. It's an unfortunate situation where his mind and his heart want him to follow different directions and that is very unfair not just for him but also for his family.
That one dreamy summer in the mountains of Wyoming was life changing for both Ennis and Jack. When summer ends, Ennis knows what he's "supposed" to do: move on, get married, have kids and raise a family. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for Ennis, Jack doesn't know how to quit him. Years later their paths cross again and their love picks up right where they left it in those mountains. As the years pass, Jack's frustration builds up as he wants more: a life together, a place of their own, a house that doesn't feel claustrophobic. But fate is cruel mistress and in the end, their love ends in tragedy.
Ennis had kept all sorts of emotions bottled up inside his heart all these years but in the end only of them is left: regret. And the worst part of it all? His love for Jack is destined to remain forever inside his closet.
As the famous quote goes: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.". I'm not sure Ennis Del Mar will agree with it.