Hauntingly Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2006)

What an achingly beautiful film. The controversy of it being 'the gay movie" was so unwarranted; instead it was a movie that with its gorgeous views and the scarcity of words allowed you to see inside the hearts of two exceptional characters. I was immediately taken with the reserved nature of Ennis and the much more outgoing, Jack. Both actors were wonderful, each conveying such a sense of vulnerability. Even with the subject content of two men in love, it effectively portrayed that love, the type of love that is encompassing and not always sexual. Ang Lee created a movie that asks each of us to think with our hearts, to look at these two characters and feel with them. He ably brought in the supporting characters to further define the film.
I would highly recommend this film-- upon the closing credits leaves one with a sense of bittersweet regretwhether it is your own memories of love, or in my case, my own ignorance that true love really, as is the case of Jack and Ennis, knows no boundaries.