Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain

One of the reasons that so many marriages today end up in divorce today has to do with the interpersonal personal relationship principle known as fatal attraction. When most people think of fatal attraction, they right away think of the popular definition represented in the movie “Fatal Attraction”. This paper will define the principle of fatal attraction from an interpersonal relationship perspective. Along with a definition of fatal attraction, I will explore some of the causes of fatal attraction. I will discuss my experiences with fatal attractions.

The Shawshank Redemption follows Andy Dufresne, a banker who is framed for the murder of his wife and her lover. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary. During his time served, he overhears that the guard inherited $35,000 and not wanting to pay taxes on that. Andy tells the guard to gift the $35,000 to his wife as a one-time transaction that will be tax free up to $60,000. He then convinces the guard that he will prepare the paperwork for him also in exchange for some beers for his inmate friends. After learning that Andy is a competent tax professional, the guards begin to have him prepare their taxes. Eventually, the warden catches notice and has Andy money launder his bribes to a made-up person. Andy creates a phantom person named Randall Stephens to receive all the wardens laundered money. Eventually, Andy Dufresne escapes from prison and imitates the identity of Randall Stephens to withdraw all the funds from his account. He then heads to Mexico as a free man from Maine.

They actually talk about it, how much better this is than with any woman. It shows them close, it shows them getting personal, even discussing the possibility of running away together. The movie did not discribe the emotional intimacy Jack and Ennis shared even before they had sex. Ennis's emotional transformation in Jack's company appears in the book with the line, "Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon." The deep friendship does not reveal in the movie, the way the book does, which was the foundation for their love. (Walford, Compare/contrast the book vs. the movie, ennisjack, 2006)

Brokeback mountain is about the simultaneity of loneliness and love. The story is filled with juxtapositions and contradictions as it begins with a memory and a dream at the end. The main character, Ennis del Mar, awakes and remembers his lover Jack Twist, who was murdered. The story’s reminder revolves around Ennis and Jack’s memory and his deeply troubled gay love affair. This began during summer when the two men worked as ranch hands in the Wyoming Brokeback Mountain. In the story, Ang Lee’s uses a direct speech by quoting Ennis’s memories such as “when Ennis was taught by his father not to be gay, he was taught to hate his feelings” (Ledger, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway). In the Wyoming mountainside, Ennis had his first love with Jack and after his marriage failed, Ennis’s world was shown to be compiled to a temporary home. Despite the TV and the Laundromat, he still felt the same pain. He says, “why don’t you let me be? It’s because of you Jack is like these-nothing and nobody (Proulx, McMurtry and Ossana).”

The film Girl Interrupted, directed by James Mangold, was originally an autobiography written by Susanna Kaysen. Girl Interrupted is about Susanna Kaysen, the eighteen year old, who was sent to a psychiatric facility, called Claymoore.Susanna was sent to Claymoore due to her attempt to commit suicide by taking a bottle of vodka and aspirin. Susanna meets a diverse group of other psychiatric patients on the women's ward, consisting Georgina, who is a pathological liar, Daisy, who is bulimic,Polly, a burnt victim, Lisa,a sociopath, who influences Susanna to rebel against receiving treatment.

Movies are most of the time related to a human being's life. Movies apply psychology to their plots. For example, movies like the StepMom directed by Chris Columbus, and Good Will Hunting directed by Gus Van Sant show us that psychology is part of our lives in a day to day base. It could go from a divorce to a person who is scared to take a step in life. The textbook, Psychology: Core Concept, by Philip G. Zimbarbo, Ann L. Weber, and Robert L. Johnson, utilizes examples from these movies. We are going to see how these movies relate to the core principles of psychology.

Girl Interrupted released in 1999 is a multi award winning film directed by James Mangold. It centres around eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen, who was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and consequentially institutionalised at Claymoore mental hospital. The film is set in the late 1960’s and focuses on her experience and struggle of being admitted to a mental institution following a failed suicide attempt. The main character of this film Susanna Kaysen (played by Winona Ryder) is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual categorises BPD to be a persistent pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships, mood and self-image, as well as distinct impulsive behaviour (Spectrum BPD, 2016).

     The film takes place in California. The location is nature, and the houses are big, they have big front and back yards. The location seems appropriate and realistic.

Stephen Spielberg’s Minority Report, based off Phillip K. Dick’s short story, takes place in the year 2054 and centers around a crime prevention program pilot-tested in Washington, D.C. by the “pre-crime division” of the police force. With crime rates down 90%, the prevention program has proven to be extremely successful; however, in a world of pre-punishment the question remains: is it possible to treat someone in a certain way because of what they may do in the future, even if it hasn’t occurred yet? This film begins with three mutant “pre-cogs” with the ability to predict the mindset and actions of future murderers with 99% accuracy. Occasionally, however, the pre-cogs do not all predict the same outcome, with one pre-cog predicting a dissenting future from the other two – this discrepancy is recorded

Brokeback Mountain is a film that describes a tragedy surrounding forbidden love. The love is between two men, Ennis and Jack and the setting is Wyoming for twenty years from the 1960’s to the 1980’s. This was a time of conservative values that looked at homosexuality in a negative light. These values caused Ennis and Jack to create a life that was what was expected in spite of what they wanted. From this came a great deal of frustration and pain for the two men, their wives, and families. The movie also related to a common issue of today’s society and that is the continued discrimination of the LGBT community. There are signs of change in modern society, but also much needed work to be done to allow an individual to live a life with freedom to express their sexuality. When the viewer looks at the film from a sociological perspective, the issue of societal norms is seen and the abnormal relationship in a homosexual relationship is the focus.

By shooting the film in Alberta, Canada he finds himself able to outwardly pass on the subject of "geographic determinism." Through the cinematography, he delineates a Midwestern world with BIG mountains, persevering farmers, a focused domesticated animals industry, and rodeo as stimulation. Lee uses the mountains, a known physical obstruction, to cut off this piece of the United States from different ranges that are more dynamic and tolerating of the gay person way of life, therefore allowing the gathering of people to have knowledge into the outlook of the characters who were brought up in the

In the Brokeback Mountain, Ennis and Jack first fall in love with each other when they herd sheep on the Brokeback mountain in the summer of 1963. When the summer ends, they separate and continue their life. To keep their relationship underground, they can only have a secret “date” in the remote areas disguising having a “fishing trip” several times a year. During next twenties years, Jack wishes to live a peaceful life ranching with Ennis as he is frustrated with the endurance of the scrupulousness; however, Ennis refuses to risk his life since he has witnessed a man killed by the locals for being “queer”. For them, Brokeback mountain is a place where they can finally put the outside world aside.

Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ is a biographical drama depicting the story of Cecil Gaines, a man who escaped a life of slavery and oppression to serve for eight presidents as a butler in the White House.

After reading literary works such as Twelfth Night and “Brokeback Mountain,” it appears they share numerous themes with the novel Never Let Me Go. One theme particularly interesting regarding the novel Twelfth Night is that of identity. The theme of identity in Twelfth Night influenced me to think differently about Ishiguro’s text, Never Let Me Go, because it allows for a deeper understanding of the difficulty the clones faced in finding their identity. After reading Never Let Me Go, one can perceive that the identity struggles the characters face are more obvious than those in Twelfth Night. After discovering the theme of identity within Twelfth Night, I now am able to gain a wider perspective of what theme Ishiguro was trying show his readers in Never Let Me Go. The theme of identity in Twelfth Night allows one to better understand why the clones in Never Let Me Go wanted to discover their true identity.

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Wes Anderson, 2014) combines a perfect mix of nostalgia and history. The film explores the themes of war as it recreates history through mise-en-scene. Anderson also incorporates other themes such as racism and elitism during pre-war Europe. The film widely explores Europe from many viewpoints, one of which is of Mr Moustafa. His nostalgia is seen through flashbacks of when he was a lobby boy that went by the name of Zero. As an audience the depth of his nostalgia is seen through mise-en-scene. With the help of cinematography and props we see can see the time and place that Moustafa acknowledges. Anderson shows how history is reimagined through ones nostalgia. Mr Moustafa recalls events, which he was not present in yet he explains them as if he were there. This also shows how one reimagines history from another due to emotions and personal attachment. Despite the outcome being the same there are many viewpoints it can be seen from.