Saddlesore, blood and whisky

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2006)

The acting performances in Brokeback are exemplary. It's sedately scripted, subtle in its suggestions and captivating throughout. Fantastic emotion from Gyllenhaal unlike any I've seen on film. A truly believable pleasure. The power of the scenery and the meaning behind the mountain provide us with an emotional wreckage of thoughts as we share their experieneces. Michelle Williams gave an outstanding performance. Their relationship is universal, the joy, pain and suffering through repression is shocking and helps us realise how far we've come in our ideals and society. Love is love and it is told plainly here.