Haunting and affecting

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2006)

Have been wanting to see this for months. (Don't go to the theater much anymore.) Have read many of the raves here and concur with them. Don't know that there is much more to say for the excellence of acting, directing, and the pathos of the story = first love, forbidden love, dangerous love. Don't know that Ledger's acting was any better than the rest of the cast's. All were top flight. It was the depth of his character that was so affecting. Who knows what would have become of these two men if they had "ranched up" together. They would have faced long term poverty, social isolation and the cooling of passion that is inevitable with all couples. Happy lives don't make dramatic stories. Can't say this is the best movie I've ever seen, but it is one of the top 30. It is haunting.