Brokeback Mountain - Thanksgiving Day

"There is a pair of Thanksgiving celebrations; Jack had a showdown with his father-in-law, drawing the line. Embarrassing, awkward, you can tell Lureen is proud of her husband, perhaps for the first time".

Ennis’ is even worse. He has dinner with his daughters, his ex-wife, and her new husband. After dinner, Alma confronts him about Jack, telling him that she left a note tied to his fishing line. It came back home intact. “Jack Twist! Jack Nasty!"Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jack Twist/Jack Nasty in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).

"You didn’t go up there to fish!” For the first time she confronts him with what she has known for years. This is the first time Ennis ever raised his hand at Alma…he leaves, furious, before he gives in and does something he’ll regret. Then he goes and picks a fight with a bigger man".Michelle Williams, as Alma Beers Del Mar. Alma’s discovery of her husbands affair was something she bore silently through all the long years. The quite stare into the distance as she contemplates the implications…so moving, so telling, subtle, but powerful. She captured the quite desperation of women trapped by society and economics in a marriage they could not fix, no matter what they did right. Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist. Beautiful and expressive, Jake conveys the tender vulnerability of Jack. So much of the communication between closeted gay men is in the subtlety of glance and avoidance. Jake mastered this. And when he was open in his feelings, they bubbled up like a spring, one that one could happily drown in. Casually sensual, he was a temptation few could resist. Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar. Ennis is nothing but hard edges and subtlety. Heath’s career had tended to the more exuberant, from the volatile William Thatcher in a Knight’s Tale, to the sensual Casanova, he played his emotions loud and proud like a fire in the night. Ennis Del Mar was not a bonfire, he was a smoldering ember. And Heath proved he was a great actor. Ennis had almost no dialogue through much of the movie. It is all stance and glance, and he made it work". Source: www.epinions.com