Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Mountain Movie, When Love Won't Count

By Marna Turner


They are hired to deal with sheep in the mountains of Wyoming, they will spend the summer together in high altitude, they will live and work side by side during all those days. As they arrive to their destination, "del Mar" , feeling well informed, releases a few words from his mouth and starts talking a bit more and showing some signals of sympathy to his buddy. He's a tough young man with a family history with resemblance of a nightmare from one of those Dickens stories. Nobody suspects anything "out of normal" is happening within the story. Days appear to be passing without any great novelty.

But new things happens, something from the regular tasks of those working days and nights at Mountain. Something has arisen between the two men, it is like bad weather coming from nowhere which has entered their lives and that will mark them forever. It seems to be only a passionate episode from the lonely at the beginning, a dream that none is ever going to know. But reality dictates different things, what just happened, will continue happening once and again, they are attached forever with a force that makes or bends the will of anyone; something we might call, love.

The summer time is over and both men must return to their worlds from the mountain, to their previous lives, but inside them in a secret place they know those lives exist no more. They have been confronted by their most inner reality and it won't disappear. They'll marry wives and make an effort to pursue a "normal" life just to realize they're being a pair of fakes. They do not fit in with that traditional society, they belong only to each other since those day in the mountains. They finally decide and meet again outside "del Mar's" home, an undesirable second floor apartment. He hasn't had much luck in life since childhood also it appears to accentuate everyday, now even his wife knows about his preferences. We are inclined to conclude his only luck and fortune in everyday life is exactly what he feels for Jack, his "fishing buddy".

Things go wrong at "del Mar's" home, marriage brakes and he is left alone fighting for life in a society that would stone him to death if they only knew. But there are bright moments too, and those happen where he regularly meets Jack who travels from far away Texas to meet the only love he has known.

By the end of the story there have been conflicts arising between the partners; too much distance and just a scarce proximity can not improve any relation. They have just had a bad encounter in their paradise, they part away with the promise of meeting again and fix what can be fixed when suddenly the story takes us to a scene where "del Mar" receives the notice of Jack's death in a cold post card with letters that say "deceased". Everything indicates he has been murdered, he was caught by those who won't let the "others" happen. And now Ennis del Mar has been left aside from society, with his love eternally longing for Jack and a daughter that will get married soon and who doesn't know his dad is a loner for a reason; and love won't count.




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