Not just for homosexuals...

Rating: 8/10 (20 April 2006)

I rather enjoyed this film.
As others have pointed out, Brokeback Mountain is really a simple love story about love and longing; sort of like a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, but with two males, rather than a male and female, as leads.
I found the story powerful in its simplicity: two men fall in love, but cannot seem to consummate their relationship in an official way due to the intolerance, both legal and cultural, of the society in which they live.
I am not homosexual, but that is not a requisite to enjoy a movie of this kind. A movie like this is about love and friendship, universal traits that are sorely lacking in the world today.