Glorious!

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2005)

Thanks to all those involved in the creation of this film! It was a difficult project to get off the ground, yet, after too many years of delays, Brokeback Mountain has emerged with a happy ending ... for its viewers get to see a masterpiece! This love story, with its rich psychological, political, sociological overtones, is still essentially about the power of human connections. Under Ang Lee's care, and the remarkable work of the two screenwriter(I had read the short story), a modern love story, among two unlikely protagonists, amidst the grandeur, and misery of rural America, unfolds. Hopefully, those many who took a chance to bring this film to life will earn many rewards.
SPOILER --- Several hours after watching this instant classic, I remain angry, disappointed at disturbed by Ennis' inability to alter his life. Things were hardly fulfilling for him by the mid 1970s: divorced, alone, "always broke", bored. He had a TV, he was aware that the world was changing, and he certainly yearned for time with Jack. Moving away from a failed life, just getting in a car and moving to California or Texas, Oregon, anywhere just to be with Jack, why the hell not? Being a waiter, a factory worker, anything!, as long as he had the one passion in his life with him, how could you resist? Clearly the demons that haunted him kept him from prevailing.
But enough armchair psychology, and let's get a couple million viewers, especially young men, into the movie theater to really be exposed to something different, striking, important and memorable.