It takes two guys to show us love

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2006)

What is love? Looks like a simple question..
But when we bring ourselves to look at the male-female relationships around us closely (and even more honestly!), we will discover that in very few cases love is the main reason for them to exist. Relationships are often build on factors like comfort, addiction or the fear of loneliness. But the main reason for a relationship is an other: Picturing a 'normal' couple that marries, gets children, sees their children grow up and have families themselves while they get old together, gives us the feeling those people live a complete life. Something tells us that this is the reason why we exist.
And it's in our nature, of course. Mens urge to spread his DNA, woman's urge to give birth to a child, the urge to leave something of us behind before we have to go.
Even today, even as modern people, we are primitive beings.
That is what stands behind almost every romance we witness. It's so much part of our image of a complete life, that even every movie has to have a romance in it to seem complete, may it be the next best superficial action flick or a more intellectual drama (the exception proves the rule, of course).
So what is love then? Does this romantic image that we have in our heads when we think about this feeling exist at all? Or is it just a trick of nature to make us reproduce, to ensure mankind's survival?
One single movie, called 'Brokeback Mountain', shows us brutally that love DOES exist. And it's two average guys who make us feel it all. Those two are forced to experience a strong affection towards one another, and through them we realize what this feeling looks like, ripped of all patterns. That affection is not explainable. It is not even wanted. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Every justification for it is taken away.
What's left is nothing but pure love.
It's an assault on your mind, body and soul. It is raw and violent. It's a force of nature.
That movie holds a firm grip on my heart ever since I watched it the first time, and I don't think it will ever let go of me completely. Yes, 'Brokeback Mountain' does make people think, and yes, 'Brokeback Mountain' does open your eyes. But most of all, 'Brokeback Mountain' does make you FEEL.