Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) | Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger

Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) | Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger | A beautiful film

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	Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger Universal, 2006 average customer review:based on 1119 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cowboys in Love

Mr. Lee has directed a romantic masterpiece for the 21st century with the magnificent Brokeback Mountain, creating an instant classic. A story that could possibly shock due to the two men looking and behaving as typical family men involved with women and children...who fall hard for each other. The perfectly cast leads not only excel in their acting but capture the essence of the intensely passionate relationship that seemingly develops out of the blue between two handsome,masculine,rugged cowboys hired to manage a flock of sheep in a spectacularly majestic mountain setting. An environment so outrageously romantic and isolated that it's impossible to imagine resisting any kind of attraction from occuring...between any two human beings.
This beautifully handled film allows anyone who watches it to identify with the emotions of erotic attraction,electric passion, tender romance,internal conflict,dramatic tragedy and life changing loss that are a big part of the human experience. The elegant, leisurely pace and classic-mythic-cinematography heightens the gut-wrenching story as it unfolds.A stunning achievement in all catagories that sets a new standard for cinematic love-story-telling for the 21st century. A classic love between opposites that anyone can relate to and identify with ,opposites not in gender, but in personality and spirit. One cowboy is the optimistic extrovert who wants it all with his man by his side and the cowboy he falls for, is the emotionally tortured intovert....who owns the film from his first shot. Mr.Gyllenhaal and Mr.Ledger's on-screen couple has become a modern legend. It'll be a long time before anyone will be able to out do this work by a pair of intelligent, brave, extremely secure and gifted actors at the peak of their craft....who really understood and felt the characters and the difficulty of this very complicated, highly emotional situation. How fantastically refreshing to see homosexual desire portrayed by two very believably masculine young men with absolutely no trace of any theatrical, selfconcious, Will & Jack style-"gay" mannerisms. And in doing so, showing the world that there are plenty of "regular" men discreetly enjoying the "power of love/lust" privately with each other right under everyone's noses! Wishing Mr. Ledger's soul peace and love...he left us with a piece of work that will hopefully inspire people to seek inner happiness by bravely facing one's inner, deeper truth. An important film for women to see to help them better understand those men who were never able to fully commit to them.

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A beautiful film

After all the reviews written, I don't want to add anything else to the plot. So much has been said already. But I want to add a bit of controversy (perhaps) All the characters in the film apparently are doomed to failure and to unhappiness. But that's only apparent. Leaving aside the topic of social repression, constraint, conventionalities bonds, etc, which obviously made both Ennis and Jack cheat on their wives (They would never even have got married if they had had the chance to live their affection openly), the question is that, in my opinion, they had a margin, whatever small, of freedom to choose living a different life. That's the hardest reproach from Jack to Ennis the last time they are together. True, it is Ennis, the introverted type, uptight and taciturn, who never wants to take any risk, who's always full of confusion and fear. It is Ennis who gives up almost since the beginning, by accepting resignation and, therefore, failure, beforehand. Because things can always be fixed; and, if not, one can always fight and lose trying to fix them. Jack, on the other hand, is extroverted, vital, enthusiastic, idealistic and a dreamer. He may seem the weaker of both, but he's actually stronger than Ennis, because he knows what he wants and is willing to fight for it. Jack would have sacrificed anything to have a common life with Ennis, while Ennis is incapable of compromise. That's how I see it. Even if their destiny was meant to be comdemned to ostracism or to be killed by an homophobic gang, like in the traumatic vision of Ennis, even this end would have been better than being bound to live a miserable unhappy life, always shielded by lies, making miserable the people around them, bearing a broken marriage, provided that, even if their end had to be tragic, both Jack and Ennis would have shared a time of happiness living together. What was the use of living to save appearances? To lead a miserable life, as Ennis ends up completely alienated, probably regretting till the end of his life the wasted chances, the lost illusions. At least Jack Twist had the guts to fight for their happiness.

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Not as Gay as people think...

Buy it, watch it, enjoy it for what it's worth as a story. Sure it's graphic but with Jake and Heath as real actors...we pretty much know who and what they are in real life. The story would have been less convincing and more focused as "gay cowboys" if the actors were unknown. Heath did play a quiet, dark man while Jake was an all out lets give in to life and forget what they all think. Anyhow, like Jesus Christ Superstar and The Passion of the Christ, one must review the movie and not make judgements based on others views. Oh and I'm not making comparisons just that those movies also were critiqued for their content too.

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Oprah was RIGHT!

I ordered this movie as soon as Oprah talked about it on her show. This movie truly tugs at your heart! The lead actors were amazing in this movie and lived their characters.

A great love story!

Merna

Good Acting BUT

This movie deserves the 3 academy awards for its excellent acting ... but because I knew in advance that both main actors where hetero I was not drawn into the plot. I even good bore.

Sure, it's a good thing that this movie was made, if only to bring forth the fact, that gay people are not "freaks of nature" or "abomination from hell" as repeatedly told to us by the conservative righteous holier-than-thou evangelists.

I much preferred "SOLDIER'S GIRL" which is an extremely moving "true" story that shows the drastic impact and consequences, when we are dealing with hatred, bigotry, ignorance, homo-odium and intolerance.

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