The Most Haunting Story of the Decade

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2005)

I have shed tears at other movies--The Color Purple, Joy Luck Club, for example. However, while I shed tears at Brokeback Mountain, I was wholly unprepared to have this movie stick with me (48 days now and counting...). I find myself searching for anything written about this magnificent movie I guess I'm a bonafide Brokeaholic now. I play the entire soundtrack every night (this is the unsung,no pun, gift of the movie--the soundtrack whisks you right back into the mood and feelings--very well done Gustavo!) Words fail, really. As a gay man in San Francisco, this movie may resonate more with me than someone not gay, but as many reviewer comments here claim, the real story can touch anyone and everyone. I didn't have a clue as to who Heath Ledger was before seeing this movie, but I sure as hell know now! Huge performance by all the main actors. I had not read the short story by Annie Proulx until after the movie, but the last lines of her story cleared up and tied up the entire experience. Ennis says "Jack, I swear...", but Jack had never asked Ennis to swear anything, and Ennis wasn't the swearing kind. end Gotta go find some tissue as I'm weeping again...