I can't add much to what others have said here, but

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2006)

...I feel compelled to say that I have not sobbed out loud so suddenly to a film as I did when Ennis came back down from Jack's room with the shirts cradled in his hands, and Jack's mother immediately reached for a shopping bag for him to carry them away in.
Actually, that's not true. I had a similar reaction at the end of (also) Ang Lee's "Wedding Banquet", when Winston Chao's father raised his hands over his body in response to the airport metal detectors, and that was the final shot...taking wing into eternity.
Even more compelling was how that same actor in a different and later Ang Lee film was the one who bagged the young, elfin mom much to our surprise in "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman."
Ounce-for-ounce, I think Ang is one of the most talented directors working today. I have loved all his films. They have each given me one moment (at the very least) of sublime connection to what makes us all human.
-M