Two Cowboys Fall In Love with One Another

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2006)

Brokeback Mountain is a remarkably compelling, strangely haunting film of superb quality. It just may have the capability of changing the viewer's life. Heath and Jake give performances that are quite frankly beautiful, far out distancing many of their young contemporaries in an industry that is obsessed with the franchise concept of film-making. Generally, the film strives to touch emotions that are not easily understand, discerned or experienced but always tumultuous and wrenching. When Jake's character,Jack Twist proclaims, "I wish I could get over you" his voice is filled with such angst that it makes the scene almost unbearable. Then, in the same scene, Heath's character, Ennis, proceeds to take the audience somewhere so intense that it is almost like another planet of emotion. This is really a deeply moving, deeply affecting film that should be viewed by all people, gay and straight. In its own way, though somewhat sad, Brokeback Mountain affirms gay relationships in that it presents affect to mere sex. Afterall, homosexuality is an affectionate preference as well as a sexual one. This film proves it.