Absolute Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2006)

This movie is an absolute masterpiece-- the actors, the casting, the scenery, the script, the acting, everything is perfect. It is a deeply moving film that touches your heart with the story of true love, lasting for an endless time-span. It breaks your heart, but it won't let go with a kind of euphoria... for you are able to dive deep into the story. You become part of the love of two men, and the yearnings to be together that can't be fulfilled entirely... it leaves you crying for days, as all the images will keep coming back in a series of intense flashbacks.
It's a story of two cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, who fall in love in one beautiful summer of Brokeback Mountain. Their love is unexpected and sudden to both, it hits like the sudden snow on the mountain-- and it burns them like fire that warms them on the cold nights that summer. Neither really resists this sudden birth of passion because they are all alone, accompanied only by the beautiful nature that surrounds them. This beauty only helps their profound intimacy and tenderness for each other to grow. Of course, later the force of society's intolerance begins to take hold... but they always go back to the mountain, to free themselves from the tiresomeness of society and to treasure the love that was born, and the love that continues to grow.
I was on a constant high during the movie, and completely mesmerized. It's a quiet, deep kind of sadness that enters you. it's a true love story and one that won't let go. To me a good movie is something that won't let go (sometimes I wish it would, but it won't) in a, shall I say, good way-- it won't let go because you become so emotionally involved and you become part of the emotional experience, part of the love, pain, yearnings, everything that is felt during the movie.
Both actors (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) are absolutely gorgeous, very sensual, and very real. I believe that Jake Gyllenhaal and Hearth Ledger should both have been considered the best actors because they are just incredible. I admire everyone who was part of this movie-making process for creating such a masterpiece... it is a work that takes you to another world, a fascinating dimension of intense love, passion, and endless longing.