Open up your heart and go see it.

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2006)

Like for many others, this is my first comment here. I saw Brokeback Mountain a few days ago and was deeply moved by the powerful story.
I do not agree that Brokeback Mountain is primarily a love story where the lovers happen to be gay and their love is made impossible by public opinion.
It is Ennis who is totally incapable to cope with who he is. He is a prisoner of his own limitations. That's the real tragedy. That's the difference to Romeo & Juliet.
When I think of all the persons that live miserable lives, because they are forced into something they are not, it makes me sad and angry at the same time. When will people finally understand, that the love two persons feel for each other can never be wrong?
I still manage to break out in tears when I let my mind wander. When Ennis gets his final letter back, I felt like stabbed in the heart. The impossible had happened. All the failures of the past became obvious in this very moment.
The acting in the last part is superb. When Jack's mother lays her hand on Ennis' shoulder to accept him as her second son, no words are needed to tell all their misery and despair. Upstairs, in Jack's room, Ennis shows his readiness to truly open his heart for Jack for the first time. Too late.
I think what moves people most about Brokeback Mountain is that it shows our deepest fear: To live a life of missed opportunities, of things that could have been but were not.
So start changing your life today. Not tomorrow, not next week. Because one day, the person you dearly love will die and then you will be left behind with nothing but a bloodstained shirt.