Not just a movie about gay cowboys

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2006)

...but so much more. Two cowboys get to know each other herding sheep at the Brokeback Mountain. Soon they discover that there is more than just friendship between them. But conservatism, social constraints, common values and opinions make life hard for the two young men who have discovered socially intolerable love for each other. Still, they are not able to let go what grew between them at the Brokeback Mountain, trying to lead a "normal" life but being haunted by their feelings. But the intolerance does not only come from outside. Rather, the prejudices the both men grew up with themselves do not disappear. Thats how a decade-long hide-and-seek begins, along with self-doubts, denial and desperation...
Before seeing it I was not sure whether I would like it, not only because there is an incredible hype being made about that movie but also because I doubted the ability of the main actors to credibly picture gay men. And even if they could, I doubted that, even though being tolerant about homosexuality myself, I would be touched by that kind of love story.
I was proved wrong. That movie is one of the kind you do not get to see that often: Pittoresque, emotional, touching, and all that without being cheesy or corny. A quiet, gentle story about two people falling in love, absolutely believable, because honest and deep.
Definitely worth seeing!!!