A great Love Story

Rating: 9/10 (4 February 2006)

I read so much about this film that when I actually saw it, I felt that it missed out so much.I wish to point out that the term "gay cowboys" does not apply in this film.It is a human story which we experience in everyday life. In this particular film it would be better to define Ennis and Jack as "MALE LOVERS." Their story is all about human love and nothing else. They loved each other, they loved their wives and their children - nothing is gay in their mutual love. The photography is superb, so is the acting and the script. The music is beautiful but very short and played at long intervals. Although the story is so real, however it lacks a few elements. It all sparks off under the tent, but very little is shown how the real love developed between them. Nothing justifies the separation and the urge for one another during their four years of separation. They were too much distracted by their flirting, their marriage and their children. It seems that the urge for one another was all revived by a simple postcard. A few flashbacks could have been included in the film to make up for their long separation. The element of sadness which develops in the second part does not justify the climax. The total disappearance of Jack Twist was not well defined. We have to imagine it through a telephone conversation between Ennis and Jack's wife.The flashback of Jack's death is very quickly wrapped up. I expected that the ending should have been more sad and would have crowned the film with a greater success. How did Jack really die? What version are we to believe? How did it really effect Ennis? The film was brought to an abrupt ending. I left the cinema by saying to myself: a great and tragic love story indeed, which needed a greater ending!