Utterly Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2006)

The true marking of a great film is how it stays with you long after you have vacated the theater. Less than twelve hours after seeing Brokeback Mountain, it haunts me like no other film I have seen in recent memory. The film represents an uncompromising vision of unfiltered passion and unparalleled love I feel has yet to previously radiate from the screen as transparently as it does here. The film works because it touches some level or another inside all us. No matter the viewer's orientation, everyone can somehow relate in some fashion or another. It's brutal, it's honest, and it represents the struggle of love and hope and perseverance long since overdue in modern cinema. A true masterpiece.