You can't help who you fall in love with....

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2005)

Sometimes a movie about love is a simple contrivance, and you can smell it from the get-go. Other times, the actors try too hard to show their bond (as friends, co-workers, lovers, neighbors), and that also smacks of 'technical' acting. And then you have the very rarest of all: A story which is believable because the players have ALL done their homework-i.e. location scouts, wardrobe, storywriter(s), director, crew (in making the actors feel comfortable and supported), decorators, techies,and without argument, the performers who can pull off the love/lovemaking scenes, leaving you with no doubt that this is an enduring and true relationship.
Romanticism and sexuality notwithstanding, when a tale grabs you by the soul (like Brokeback Mountain, plainly does), if you don't come away with the message that you'd better take love when it's offered , as you may not get another chance,(Because as my Great-Grandfather used to say: Baby, none of us is getting out of this life alive. So you better make it good.) your heart is frozen. Waste no time. See this movie and get a dose of something unusual: Niceness and contentedness in a gentle dose. Ahhhhhhhh.