A great motion picture experience.

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2006)

This is the best film that I've seen in years. I do hope it goes on to sweep the Oscars. Every aspect of the film is topnotch. The acting is the best of the year. America has been waiting for this film for some time. Thanks to Ang Lee we have it. The film explores the myth behind the silent cowboy. American mythology has been full of heroes who can't speak. Now we understand that what they want to express is too difficult to put into words. We can thank the great Western writer Larry McMurtry for capturing the tenor of the story. The two leads Jake and Ennis are very much a part of the lonely windswept legacy of Wyoming. I think both writers Tennessee Williams and D. H. Lawrence would understand this story of heartbreaking love. And everyone who wonders about the legacy of the story should read LOVE AND DEATH IN THE American NOVEL by Leavis. But first go see the move.