the truth of the movie is in this comment...

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2006)

It's just a marketing strategy so you read my comment,you are here already, so why don't you give it a try...? :)
Some people talk whether the posters are we from, I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, but does it matter really? No, because the film whole idea is universal, and you will find many matches from other posters surely.
I went to see the movie and I started really thinking about it and how it connected with my own experience only after 2 days when I woke up. Maybe repression? Surely.:)
The important and I think this is a truth of the movie, is that IT Doesn't MATTER Whether THEY WERE IN LOVE OR NOT.
Movies, like music, are 101% subjective. Sometimes we cant figure out what is going on within ourselves, so try to figure out whats inside another person, in a movie , in 2 hours ... a little difficult don't you think?
THE IMPORTANT of the movie is what they do, what they decide, and how with that decisions, our life goes one way or another.
TRUTH OF THE MOVIE 2. IT Doesn't MATTER THEY WERE IN 1963
YEAR 2003 - I had the same story a few years ago, (but with 2 girls, I'm straight) (not having children luckily, and not being married) with a girl being dating another girl. YEAR 2003.
My fears, your fears, if you had a similar story, ARE THE SAME AS THE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS.
OK, I wouldn't be killed if i was discovered, i accept that (..anyway would they?) but... all the other fears are UNIVERSAL and happen in 2006. What fears?
Fear of how will it be with her and lose my other girl which was a constructed 3 years love, some fears related to her parents acceptance, friends, losing everything..etc. etc. Fear of losing everything, losing yourself.... don't you get connected with this, or to what the characters experienced? :)
Was it only passion, was it love? WE WILL NEVER KNOW. Yes, I agree, like someone said, we will need a few more years of movie and a relationship to see what happens. And that either , if they broke up suppose, doesn't mean they didn't love each other.
I agree! They seemed to love each other. I agree! They seemed to have sex in the mountain and get drunk only! IT Doesn't MATTER WHICH IS THE TRUTH.
THE TRUTH AND CRUCIAL MESSAGE OF THE MOVIE is "WHAT WOULD HAVE IT BEEN IF ...?" (someone already posted this) .
The film may have touched you for any other lots of things, but in the end, its a story of ordinary people, like everyone of us.
LIFE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU while you are not watching TV. What you have to do , do it now. TOMORROW, it can be late.
LOVE , yes , its like the CASINO, if you didn't put the chip on time on the roulette for the number you were thinking, YOU IN THE MOST CASES: LOSE. You might have more chances in the future, but one day, when you didn't expected one of the two take a decision, (or one dies like in the movie) and thats all folks.
If you didn't put the chip on time, the other question the movie lets flow is :
WILL YOU TORTURE YOURSELF FOREVER? Or will YOU GIVE A CHANCE FOR LOVE for a new person? Will you live like ENNIS keeping a jacket with blood and looking to a poster? OR WILL YOU CARRY ON... ?
Hope you liked my point of view, feel free to reply to me with your comments. Greetings!