The Globe's Best Picture in Oscar Award

Rating: 9/10 (8 March 2006)

Despite all the globe's choice of Brokeback Mountain as their favorite movies, the results still went crashing to the ground.
We went to see this movie when it was first shown in Taiwan. At first, I still remembered that the media here promoted the movie mainly because of a Taiwanese director Ang Lee. Surprisingly, at the beginning the audience was usually straight couples, and then quickly, the movie widely spread and hit the box office in Taiwan. Who would think about it as a hit compared to those mainstreams of Hollywood popcorn movies? Later on, the Annie Proulx's novel followed on and became so popular that it's no way to get her Brokeback Mountain and Close Long in the bookstore. There was even a Brokeback Mountain syndrome that described the audience would be downcast whenever thinking about the end or listening to the soundtrack and the song.
A happy-ending love story will definitely makes you smile in the cinema. But you won't remember what exactly the scene is after few months. Although I do wish these cowboys would happily live together, the ending of Brokeback Mountain seems to be much powerful and memorable for all of us, and the days in Brokeback are the most beautiful encounter. Nevertheless, Brokeback Mountain is still our Best Picture in Oscar Award.