I have never....

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2006)

In all the years that I have went to the movies, rented movies, stayed home and watched movies, I have never had a movie effect me so deeply and with such great length as this one did. Heath Ledgers performance was unparalleled, but Jake Gyllanhaals performance went beyond any expectations that I could ever have entertained. The fact that most of the Kudos for this movie have been laid at Heath and Ang Lees feet does bother me. Jake has shown us all, in this performance that he is definitely no bubble boy and as such should have received much more recognition. I have not been able to stop thinking about this movie since I left the theater. When people ask me "isn't that the movie about the gay cowboys"? I resoundingly answer NO! it is not. It is like "The bridges of Madison county" meet "The Notebook".