Quietly Pwerful

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2006)

Brokeback has minor flaws which can be easily over looked once you are in the story. The beginning is slow and it is about 20 minutes to long. The chemistry between the cast is intense enough to jump off the screen and Michelle Williams is flawless in her performance. The setting of Wyoming is beautiful and the emotional complexities happening in everyones world pulls you in like an unstoppable magnet. I admire any actor who takes a risk to play a character that may be out of his/her comfort zone and both Jake and Heath are as real as Charlize Theron was in Monstor. Ang Lee always has a way of being quietly powerful in his direction. I don't think Brokeback Mountain is just a gay cowboy movie. I think it's a movie about two cowboys who fall in love.