Ennis - reserved

quotes and shots used:

'Hell that's more words than I spoke in a year'

Long and midshots of Ennis at beginning, head bowed and reserved

 Not accepting his own self, hiding

'You know I ain't queer'

 High-angle showing he has to defend himself

Ennis; "I told you it ain't gonna be that way"

Jack: "As far as our marriage goes, we could do it over the phone"

crosscutting, bbm vs dull home life

- use of colour/saturation - compare

-Sounds used. digetic and non digetic

Shows how these men have to hide there true selves in marriages they don't like. How much effor they put in to fit a 'norm'

"They found Earl dead in an irrigation ditch. Took a tire iron to 'im spurred it up, drag him around his dick till it pulled off. My daddy made sure me and my brother seen it"

flashback, high angle shots as if looking down in a nightmare

- Harsh lighting -> landscape looks bleached, photographic like his engraved memory.

- Deep foreboding music and slo-mo conveys horror

"I got no work for you" 

midshot, sitting in chair - position of power

Jo Augirre= society's view on homosexuality

"I'm nothing... I'm no one... It's because of you I am like this"

- hysterical, handheld camera mimic heavy breathing 

- Long shots of Ennis in trailer, over-the-shoulder shot of him looking at postcard of BBM

Forced to the outskirts of town for being different

In reaction to 1998 gay bashing in Wyoming - Matthew Shepard.

film stays true to minimal dialogue

"Tell what we could have had a good life together, a fucking real good life"

"I wish I knew how to quit you"

"Jack, I swear-"

Proulx: "What Jack remembered and craved in a way"

"awaken in people an empathy for diversity" 

Gus Van Sant

stood up for gay rights

faced dagerous society in 1970's

numerous death threats "You get the first bullet the minute you step up at the microphone"

Murdered for being different, like Jack

film still banned in some places

gays still discriminated eg highschool bullying

Marriage bill

gay = stylish