A Film Classic That Will Be Remembered 50 Years From Now

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2010)

My friends and I have a theory: those who bad-mouth Brokeback Mountain have NOT seen it.
This is a beautifully filmed motion picture; I'd dare as line it up alongside the David Lean 1962 classic "Lawrence of Arabia" and John Ford's 1956 masterpiece "The Searchers" for landscape and scenery being a principal character.
And heartbreaking, too; my, my!
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play two young buck cowboys with nary a pot to pee in nor a window to throw it out of, herding sheep by their lonesome in Wyoming during the summer of 1963.
And because they have nothing but themselves, they first fall into rutting lust, and then slowly into love.
What is even more heart-breaking is the fact that they have the opportunity to strike out on their own as cowboy ranchers, but fear keeps one of the duo from following through.
And in the course of twenty years of meeting for summertime fishing trips, they fritter their lives away.
I watched this in a full house of blue collar types when it arrived here in our town; after the film was over, the general consensus was Brokeback Mountain was awesome, and we were glad for the chance to see this (finally) on the big screen, after all the hoopla controversy surrounding it.
Definitely one to own on DVD.