movie that may make you weep with grief...

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2007)

I thought, when I 1st saw this movie, that this movie is about a sweeping love story between 2 men over a long period of time...the struggles & conflicts they faced (from society & within themselves)...men who could only love each other openly when they were alone together out in the middle of breathtaking nature (with nature symbolizing unlimited freedom from expectations & freedom to explore love openly)... Brokeback Mountain is really not about those issues at all...this movie is about one man's intense loneliness...a man who doomed himself to a lifetime of loneliness despite the love that was given to him... this movie is near perfect... Jake Gyllenhaal was magnificent... I can't get my head around Heath Ledger's absolutely stunning performance...he almost stole the movie...I hope with this movie he never has to act in another empty & shallow movie ever again... I knew some cowboys...Heath was exactly like them...in mannerisms...the way he walked & kinda slouched over...he lived that part...and when his character (Ennis Del Mar) was allowed to be human for a moment instead of a strong & silent cowboy Ledger was achingly real in showing the vulnerability of that character... if this movie doesn't make you weep after an ending that will haunt you forever then nothing can possibly make you cry...