Love that never grows old

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2006)

I don't think I've seen a love story so powerful and so moving as Brokeback Mountain. It tops all other romance/tragedy films in my lifetime. Ang Lee is able to accomplish something that film-makers rarely are able: to make the audience genuinely care about the characters. They seem real, because they are believable. We worry about them, because forbidden love that end in tragedy still happen today. And I so appreciate Ang Lee for not turning this into a overt melodramatic tear-jerker. Thank god, he stayed clear away from the Titanicesque sobbing or the Romeo + Juliette screaming/crying that begs audiences' sympathy. Just the silent tears fixed in Ennis' eyes as he strokes the two shirts carefully hung together are powerful rendering of love lost, missed and cherished for life. Love is a force of nature. Truly.