A ranch hand and rodeo boy experience something they wish they hadn't, but can't ignore it once it's there.

Rating: 10/10 (2 April 2006)

This movie was...no other way to say it, amazing. It touched what I never knew existed in me. The fact that it was two men made no difference to me. The acting from Heath Ledger was beyond superb and Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal gave exceptional performances as well. The cinematography was fabulous and surely not to be forgotten. The story this was adapted from was short, and I'm amazed Ang Lee could put so much emotion into it. The actors, director, and screen writers did an amazing job of molding the characters. I've seen the movie at least 10 times and have noticed a minimal number of mistakes concerning continuity. The actors really seemed to crawl inside of their characters and warped themselves, not the characters. I appreciated that, because often when you see a movie from a book, the characters are weird, and many events are changed. While some things were removed for the sake of having a viewing audience (there was some fairly graphic writing in the novella), very little was changed. That's a very nice thing to see. This is a movie for an mood, or any day. I loved it.