Brokeback Mountain, the first great film of 2006 (In England)

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2006)

Brokeback Mountain seems like a film just designed to be different, two men falling in love and trying to make their relationship work as they have other relationships. But this film doesn't just stop at being different, and it's not at all afraid to be slow paced and sometimes just stop the story so the characters can develop on screen. With amazing performances from Heath Ledger (Who seems unrecognisable) and Jake Gyllenhal (Who's grown up so much since Donnie Darko and The Day After Tomorrow) Brokeback offers a great story, a sad twist, fantastic acting and dialogue, some of the greatest landscapes ever seen on screen and some shocking scenes, especially with the sheep and the couple's first time. As a film designed to change Hollywood it is amazing, but as an award winning film there's no need for nominations, when the Oscar nominations are announced on 31st January there should just be two words listed for most of the categories, Brokeback Mountain. Fantastic, Breathtaking, Original.