I wish I can quit you, movie, but you're just so good to watch.

Rating: 8/10 (18 November 2012)

I don't see it as a gay or bisexual cowboy movie directed by Ang Lee. I see it as just a romantic movie. For a movie based on bisexual or homosexual love, it's pretty tame compare to the other LBGT movies. The characters don't play on the gay stereotypes, nor does it feed like aggression pro gay marriage movement agenda film. It was suppose to be a low-budget, art house film with no prospect of making any money, but it grew to become of the best romantic movies of the year. The reasons why is the characters and story. In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are hired by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) to herd his sheep through the summer in Wyoming at a place call Brokeback Mountain. Soon after months being up there, the loneliness kicks in, Jack makes a sexual pass at Ennis, who is initially apprehensive but then succumbs to Jack's advances. Jack's characteristic seems more interested in sex & lust than Ennis. Jack had a history of affairs and sex with prostitutes. Jack then to borderline sex predator at times and more of aggressor of the relationship. Ennis has a clandestine personality. Heath doesn't need to say much to embody the inhibition, inarticulateness character Ennis Del Mar. His character is the key dimensions of this story about gay characters who must keep their sexual preferences hidden in a repressive society. Ledger's subtle facial expressions alternately conceal or reveal his deeper feelings without resorting to words, for he is living a secret. Those depths come out in his facial expressions and body language: dialogue written by screenwriter Diana Ossana & Larry McMurtry helped Ennis restrain his deepest feeling than to verbalize them. Ennie warns Jack that it was a one-time incident, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Shortly after learning their summer together is being cut short, they briefly fight, and each is bloodied. After Jack and Ennis part ways, Ennis marries his longtime girlfriend Alma Beers (Michelle Williams) and fathers two children. Jack meets, marries and starts a family with rodeo rider Lureen Newsome (Anne Hathaway). Midwhile, both Ennis and Jack continue to meet each other for infrequent fishing trips. The script and the direction kept a low profile about the events and the characters involved and their lives, so making the underground pain even more explodeable. No much drama exhibition, thus no "melodramatic' show off, just life, as it would really be under these circumstances. A film almost "neorealistic" and therefore painfully touching for the ones who know what living with hidden feelings really means. The ending is one of the saddest pieces I ever witness. Ang's perfection in directing with a style of "less is more" causes this movie to seep deep inside of you and it haunts you for days/weeks after wards. While people quote it as a epic Western, I really don't think it's a Western due to two reasons: the story's periodic time isn't 19th to early 20th century, and modernization of the piece. Brokeback Mountain also has one of the best theme song by Gustavo Santaolalla 'The Wings'. Gorgeous and heart warming song that injects an overdose of emotions. Check out the movie. It's not a story of gay love. It's a story of love.