What's love got to do with it?

Rating: 2/10 (4 January 2006)

In the meantime I have become really cautious to view any movie which has been hyped a lot.Nearly every time I regret having spend the money and time.
Unfortunately I do like movies and the pickings got so slim. So I decided to see Brokeback Mountain, despite that the reviews made me suspicious.
I love Canada. The scenery shots were worth the admission price. No regrets there.
I am female without homosexual love experiences. I could relate to the sex scenes in-between the two men, I could not relate to the fact that they were supposed to love each other. It is easy to keep up sexual tension if you meet only from time to time in a recreational atmosphere. It has nothing to do with a love which has to survive the daily grind.
The story told in this movie(I have not read the book) is not a love story, the story told is about a love affair drawn out over twenty years, hurting a lot of people on the way. In many of the reviews I read a regret. A regret of not having had the courage to live a love. But if these two would have lived their love consequently, the story would probably have been even more depressing.
I left the theater a little bit frustrated. Frustrated because I had not seen the moving love story I expected, but an all too familiar tale of human shortcomings, well portrayed.