Brokeback Mountain Analysis

I have chosen the move Fatal Attraction to depict a character suffering from mental illness. I remember watching this movie with anticipating fear of what was going to happen. This movie is about a happy family compromised by an obsession resulting from an affair. Dan Gallagher is the husband and father in this film who has an affair with Alex Forest and then wants to end it with her. Dan has a happy life with his wife Anne and daughter Ellen, all of which Alex desires. In terms of DSM-IV, I would diagnose Alex with Histrionic Personality Disorder which falls in Axis I category. One characteristic of this is precipitating and perpetuating causes. (Baird, 2011, P. 264; P. 267) Alex appeared to be a strong woman, and may have well been, until the affair happened. This event could have been the trigger for her disorder, causing her to refuse letting him go. As such, the disorder manifested and worsened as time went on. Dan told Alex the relationship was over and that he loved his wife but Alex wanted more and would not let up. She even kidnapped their daughter, Ellen, and took her to an amusement park to live out part of her obsession with him. This leads to the second characteristic of Alex as she demonstrates excessive emotionality and manipulation. (Baird, 2011, P. 275) Alex felt she could not live without Dan and needed reassurance from him that he loved her. She wanted to step right in and take his wife’s place. Her expectations were unrealistic

This movie is about institutionalized girls who are receiving treatments for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts, this movie is based on a true story. Daisy Randone, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters in this movie. Mrs. Randone’s is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural and diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While, Lisa is a sociopath and isn’t very complaint with treatment regimens and has been in and out of the facility several times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging a bottle of vodka with at least twenty – five aspirin and is unsuccessful, Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking from Lisa. She is successful in her attempt by hanging and the day of her death is on her birthday.

The short story Brokeback Mountain (1997) written by Annie Proulx received a lot of attention when it was first published in the New Yorker. The story is about the relationship between Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, two cowboys who develop a forbidden love for each other and have to live separate lives. They first meet when they both get hired to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The movie adaptations by the director Ang Lee, came out 2005. And it received

The film starts off with the protagonists’ encounter in a baseball tournament. Invitation communication begins with Gary asking Brooke if she would like to have a hotdog. On relationship meaning level, it reflects Gary’s interest in knowing Brooke. By the end of the tournament, Gary tries to ask her out, exploring the possibilities for a relationship with her. Despite Brooke calling him “crazy”, she still chuckles and responds to Gary’s pick-up lines, hinting that Brooke is not totally uninterested. It is quickly followed by the opening credits with intimate photos that captured the intensifying communication stage between the protagonists. Their long term commitment takes the form of cohabitation, thus completing the escalation phase of

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).”

As a young adult, it is difficult to grow up without parents and still be tough and brave. In addition, teens can be emotional and overreact at times. In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, a fourteen-year-old kid named Ponyboy Curtis feels different emotions that make him stand out from other Greasers, or “hoodlums”. Ponyboy, the youngest of all the Greasers, is a great example of a teen who feels isolated, brave, and emotional throughout the novel.

Fight Club: every white man’s favorite movie and my worst nightmare turned reality. Much of the novel version of Fight Club struggles with this issues of toxic masculinity, feminization, and emotional constipation. No character addresses these topics better than Robert Paulson, better known as Big Bob; it is his character that serves as a catalyst for both The Narrator, and Project Mayhem.

Ennis grew up in a stereotypical family, he was one of three children and was expected to work, get married and start a family. That was the life his parents expected for him to have, his father even went to the extremes of showing him a man that was killed and had his genitals removed since many of the men in the town found out that he was homosexual. Ennis’ father always believed that heterosexuality was the right way of life, and if someone were to go against his beliefs they were wrong and must be punished. Since this was the way that Ennis was raised when he realises that his feelings towards women were not as strong as his feelings towards men he tried to supress them. Although he knew that he wanted to be with Jack and he wanted to start

Brokeback Mountain, being the more homosexual romance-oriented Western that it is, subverts a large number of the typical traditional elements of the Western film genre as a whole, this one especially, by having another male be in the position of the love interest of the hero. Although this subversion in particular is very problematic for Jack, as it puts him in the shoes of being associated with all things relating to femininity in the relationship. For example, Jack is the one who makes the first move when seducing Ennis, using his own allure and sexuality into tempting Ennis when he calls him into the tent, leading Ennis down somewhat of a risky path. Ennis, however, is portrayed as somewhat of a saint, his being repressed and restrained by social standards, saying to Jack, “You may be a sinner but I ain't yet had the opportunity”. Another interesting typical thing in the Western genre that was altered was that instead of Indians being the villain, the enemy is that of a ignorant and oppressive society–a society that would kill Ennis and Jack for being “different”, Ennis says to Jack, “this thing takes hold of us at the wrong place, wrong time and we're dead,” which shows how much they both worry about it–but the two cowboys still have to find some way to pull through and struggle to find their true selves in this society, but it is also that fear which causes the devastating events

This story is about human love that love couldn’t survive the judgmental heterosexual world. Human kindness is the motive influencing Brokeback Mountain. The story takes place between two men, a rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jack Gyllenhaal) and the ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger). In many discussions, some believe that the film circles around gay people and they are dependent on their sex life. While some others may see only the masculinity and aggressiveness in both characters. The story takes place in 1963 where Jack and Ennis are in their early twenties. Their emotions were stronger than what the culture taught them. Jack and Ennis fall profoundly infatuated on Brokeback Mountain, however they are not able to express their emotions or

Erving Goffman maintained that negative labels are often stigmatizing. He believed that stigmas result in a “spoiled identity.” Goffman coined the term stigma to describe the labels society uses to devalue members of certain social groups (pg. 107). He identified three categories or types of stigmas: abominations of the body, blemishes of individual character, and tribal. When a person became aware of a certain stigma they had been labeled to, Goffman noted three ways to manage it: hide the stigma, distance themselves from the stigma or try to correct it, and embrace or accept the stigma. The movie Dallas Buyers Club offers a chance to see several stigmas brought to light, and the way that each was handled. For instance there are examples of HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, feminism, and criminal activity that are prevalent and shape the way the movie is organized.

In the film, Good Will Hunting, the main character, Will Hunting, is a gifted mathematician who struggles to find a productive and fruitful life. Throughout the film, Will displays outstanding and one-of-a-kind abilities in the field of mathematics. However, his emotional and social intelligence falls far behind his intellectual intelligence. With a rap sheet stocked full with assault and aggression, Will must navigate himself through life by learning to trust, love, and learn.

Differing opinions exist regarding the purpose and usefulness of a college education. While attending college appears to be a legitimate course of action to advance one’s educational and professional aspirations for some, it may seem senseless when considering the rise of college tuitions coupled with the fact that a college degree does not necessarily guarantee a job. Either way, defining the value and worth of a college education remains subjective. However, in the film, Good Will Hunting, the importance or perceived importance of a college education seems to be rejected at large, namely by the main character, Will Hunting, and his psychologist. Specifically, two main perspectives are shown regarding the frame of mind one should possess regarding education, one that values academic achievement and jobs, and the other that rejects those ideals and focuses primarily on self-discovery to figure out what is wanted in life. Consequently, both perspectives result in different behaviors among the characters in the film. Although Good Wil Hunting accurately highlights some of the major downfalls of a college education, it unfairly criticizes the emphasis college cultures places on achievement and future success. Because of this, the film takes devalues a college education and subtly frames it as a waste of resources through overtly ridiculing it.

'From the different attitudes the camera had toward their bodies in the opening sequence, to the economies of looks and talk between them, to their different sexual positions and experiences, this act masculinised Ennis while feminised Jack' (2007)

The summers went by with both characters living their lives without any contact. Then in June of the fourth summer, Jack wrote Ennis to tell him that he was coming though his town and wanted to visit while passing through. Ennis responded and agreed to the visit. On the day Jack was due for the visit, Ennis was running around like a wild man in anticipation of what was going to happen. Jack arrived and immediately the attraction came right back. When the reunion took place they embraced each other and kissed passionately. Unbeknownst to them, their embrace was caught by Ennis’s wife, and she became very suspicious. The two would eventually get drunk and engage in another sexual escapade all night in the local hotel. After the encounter Ennis said, “I didn’t know where in the hell you was, I about gave up on you. Figured you were sore about that punch” (Annie Proulx 11). Conversations were had about leaving and starting a life together on a ranch of their own, but Ennis was not going to leave his family. He was reminded of a story his father told him about homosexuals being beaten up and left for dead. Ennis was fearful that may happen to them. Again, they part ways but stay in touch with multiple