Brilliant cast, epic love story

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2006)

Love is all about the moment, the time spent together, the when and the where. Brokeback Mountain is the setting of that moment, one they could never get back. The rest of their lives is just centered around the memory of Brokeback Mountain, never amounting to much because they got stuck in that time. I'm a sucker for a good gay love story and this film moved me from minute one.
Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal) are two gay cowboys who fall in love in the summer of 1963 while working as shepherds on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. Needless to say, their relationship is taboo and they end up leading separate lives, each married and living far apart. They never forget each other and occasionally meet up on "fishing trips", desperately trying to recapture the time they had together when they first met. Time takes its toll, and the love they felt becomes a burden on both.
With a brilliant cast, this epic love story will affect even those most opposed to homosexuality. It's not about gay love. It's about forbidden love. And it is in this love that Lee was able to merge the beauty of midland America with the beauty of a passion that inevitably turns into pain. You can't help but feel it. I know I did.