Love is love

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2006)

Eight hundred and thirty-five comments and counting. I guess I'm only adding mine because I feel as though I've been privileged to have witnessed history. I feel a camaraderie of sorts with the others who were obviously as deeply affected as I was.
I have so often said that love is love, regardless of who shares it, and that love and lovers will not be thwarted. Ang Lee showed that love will not be denied. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall made me believe this was their story, not a film, but their real, gritty, hard-edged lives. Their passion and desire, love, angst, anger, confusion, all their emotions, leaped off that screen and blew an entire audience away. My 16-year-old daughter and I witnessed it! There wasn't a dry eye in the house amongst us women. Although no men cried that we could see, they looked as though they'd been gut-punched - they were numb. This was the most profound experience I have ever had in a theater, ever, in my 45 years.
I think it's obvious where this film is headed...