Ruby Graham’s verdict: I can’t imagine anything more painful than loving someone so passionately your whole life and yet never being able to say it out loud. Not even to them. Jack and Ennis are like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, and the poison that destroyed them was the secret they were forced to keep.
Luke Devlin’s verdict: No one should have to hide who they really are. Or who they want to be with. That sucks. But I wonder if Jack and Ennis would have been better without Brokeback Mountain, because all it did in the end was screw up both their lives.