Stunning, Beautiful, Moving - Will stay with you long after the movie has ended.

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2007)

I have heard things about this movie, and after reading a plot synopsis of this movie a couple days ago, I decided to rent it yesterday, and since then have watched it three times. This movie so beautiful in so many ways. It grabs a hold of you early on and won't let you go, leaving you starting at the screen, and leaves you thinking about it and the two main characters - Jack and Ennis - long after you've walked away, touching you so deeply that it feels more real to you than a simple movie, because it ceases to be that, and becomes so much more.
In this movie, Heath Ledger portrays Ennis and Jake Gyllenhal plays Jack. They cease be Heath and Jake, and become Jack and Ennis. Ang Lee takes you through a journey of nearly twenty years that will leave you stunned and moved beyond words. Never before I have ever seen something that has touched me so deeply like Brokeback Mountain does. Heath and Jake are fantastic, and the ending will leave you teared up, wanting more, sad yet understanding about the sadness and tragedy of it.
To name this the "gay cowboy movie" like it has been in the past is grossly underestimating the beauty and power of this movie. I advise everyone with an even slightly open mind to go see this, because really it's about being gay, it's about forbidden love of a romance in which you love someone like no other, but can never be with them - understandable when it takes place in the 1960's and 70's. It's about the power, beauty, sadness and tragedy of love, which after seeing this, you can truly say is the most powerful and mysterious force on Earth.
Superbly acted, directed, and written, even the score of the movie helps tell the story and the emotions involved - simple, yet powerful, moving and haunting all at the same time. This movie touches you on a deep level, leaving a permanent mark. It is beautiful and moving beyond words as you wrapped into the sadness and tragedy of Jack and Ennis' lives on a personal level that, at least I, had never felt before for fictional characters, because it's so real on screen that it feels real to you, and I honestly think, and so will most that understand what I'm saying, that Brokeback Mountain is one of the greatest love stories of all time.