THE HIDDEN TRUTH OF JACK TWIST’S CHARACTERIZATION IN BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN MOVIE

Brokeback Mountain movie is one of homosexual movies. The story of this movie is complicated; where the main characters in the movie are homosexuals however they have a wife and children. This research focuses on sex, gender, and sexual orientation or desires, which these are, involved in a character in this movie. This movie is interesting to be analyzed because it tells about Jack Twist’s characterization. Jack Twist has two personalities to hide his real identity. In one side, he pretends to be a heterosexual man and plays a role as a straight male. In the other side, he plays a role as a female in the relationship with his boyfriend. The aim of Jack’s negotiation as a gay is to reject the discrimination from outside. It is because homosexual is a minority while heterosexual is majority among communities in the world. This is also the reason why the researcher focuses on homosexuality. The researcher wants to analyze how a homosexual person can live in a society, where he can hide his desire and his relationship with another man. This research uses queer theory of Michael Foucault, discourse theory of James Paul Gee, and film theory of Ami Villarejo to achieve the result of this problem, where Jack Twist successes to negotiate his real identity. As the result of this analysis, the researcher finds how Jack Twist negotiates his real identity based on situation around him