Passion and Love Flow Freely They Are Not Bound By Rules

Rating: 10/10 (29 May 2006)

Two men with similar lonely and painful backgrounds find themselves alone on a mountain herding sheep. On a freezing night, one man, who is in a tent, invites the other, who is freezing outside, into the tent. No one really knows what causes the heart to love, or the bodies to be physically attracted to others, but this happened to these two men, and the love and attraction were so deep that I felt the would suffer in this world because I knew they would never be able to sustain the beauty and force of their love and passion. I feel such passion has nothing to do with sexes. When someone touches you, man or woman, you will love them, What is so amazing is that realization came to me from the earnestness and force of Ang Lee's direction, and the truth and depth of the actors portrayals. There were few scenes, but each scene was a stone of pain in my heart and in the depth of their love. We knew from the beginning when his father showed him the dead man who had been killed for living with a man that he would die. There was no space in this world for their love. As they said in a begging scene, they were not (as they put it)queers. They were two people who fell in love. Their love was so passionate that they had no control over it when they saw each other. Little by little their lives were destroyed. To me most profound image in the movie was the scene of the opened closet door with the two bloodied shirts and the postcard of Brokeback Mountain tacked next to it. I actually cried at the pain of their lost love. I have seen other of Ang Lee's movies, but for me, this was his bravest effort and as a writer, I applaud him. It surely should have won the Best Picture Award, but we here in America have not reached that level of wisdom yet! Perhaps one day... L. W. D. A Poet and Writer