Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2016)

It's hard to find the right words to describe what makes this movie so special. Brokeback Mountain, often lapidary called "the gay Cowboy movie", is so much more than that; it's a love story. The two main characters happen to be men, but after at most 10 minutes, you totally forget about that, you just see two human beings loving each other in the purest and most honest way possible. Ledger and Gyllenhaal have an undeniable on-screen-chemistry and torture us by giving us a total overload of different feelings. We are forced to feel whatever our two cowboys feel: love, pain, desperation, anger, excitement, hope, disappointment and most of all: loneliness. Ang Lees masterpiece leaves us with a certain kind of numbness, which you have to experience yourself to fully understand it.