Absolutely beautiful, haunting, one of a kind

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2006)

Brokeback Mountain. I am haunted by this movie, this story, this love.
I don't go to movies much. Like once every 5 years, maybe. But I read an article about Brokeback & couldn't get it out of my head. Checked it out online. There was an urgency to seeing it that I cannot explain. Saw it a week & 1/2 ago, and just had to go back this week. It's beyond words, how can one describe it as a "gay love story", a "homosexual relationship", whatever. I can't. It transcends that. I think of it as a love between two people who connected so powerfully, so deeply. It is simply beautiful. At night I replay scenes in my mind. It has changed me profoundly.
I never left a comment on a website before, either. I wonder how I can be so involved with a movie written from a story written about people who never lived? I can't stop thinking about it. I loved seeing it the second time. The men were perfect as Ennis & Jake. Just perfect. Every scene between them was amazing. The 'back & forth' between them was so genuine, so real. I feel almost like a shadow in contrast to their reality.
An amazing, beautiful, powerful masterpiece.