Most Important film of the decade and by far the best year of 2005

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2008)

Look, I am a 16 year old-straight male, and Brokeback Mounatin is one of my favorite films of the decade and I admit that and get made fun of and called a homo by my friends. Now, about a year and a half ago I would have done the same thing, but then I realized I loved film and actually watched Brokeback Mounatin and realized I was being an ignorant prick. It seems like everyone I am friends or family with will not give this film a chance because it is about a homosexual relationship and it pisses me off. If you don't like the film for a certain reason and you give it a chance or even give it a chance and say it made you too uncomfortable, then i can accept that, but don't say anything about the film unless you see it. This film is a heart-breaking, melodramatic, nuanced masterpiece. Ang Lee really makes the most nuanced films between The Wedding Banquet, The Ice Storm, This film, and the masterpiece which is Crouching Tiger, he is one of the best directors alive. Heath Ledger gives such a bold, theme detailed, and understated performance and when he finally snaps it is heart breaking. I respect Jake Gyllenahl for taking the role and he is good, but not great. All the female actresses like Hathaway and Williams are great as well. Larry McMurtry wrote the screenplay and you can tell. The film has a very similar bleak feeling dealing with a certain place with same type of enclosed and scared people that The Last Picture Show dealt with, one of my favorite films of all time. I normally don't cry during films, but I teared up during this film. I cried in in The Last Picture Show, Last Tango In Paris, The Pianist, Life Is Beautiful, Elephant, The Deer Hunter, Amelie, The Bicycle Thief, Letters From Iwo Jima, Forrst Gump, Amores Peros, The Sweet Hereafter, and now this film. It is a very powerful, well made, well written, detailed, and important film, maybe the most important film of the decade. An emotional masterpiece