Brokeback Mountain Review and Response

[markolas]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I thought that flashback was Ennis flashing back to the rancher from his childhood who was beaten to death for being gay. I felt as if Ennis was seeing that because Ennis himself had been a part of that. If I remember correctly, the person being beaten in the scene is having the same things done to him that Ennis said were done to the gay rancher. But, it could be that Ennis knew the real story of what happened to Jack and that flashback was what was running through his mind.

That's what I thought, too, although I don't think Jake was having the same things done to him as the rancher that Ennis saw. It does make more sense that the wife was the one having the flashbacks. It was all going by so fast that it was hard for me to make heads or tails of it. But you're right about it being spellbinding.