Horse Blog

Brokeback is a love story and a tragic one at that. Don’t let the hats fool you. It’s far more Titanic than Silverado. It’s the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), two cowboys who meet one summer while herding sheep in the mountains of Wyoming. Unless you’ve been living in a pop culture bubble the last few months, watching the first half hour of the film can feel at times like the wait for the shark in Jaws. You know these two are going to give in to their desires buried so deep. It’s just a matter of how and when.