Wonderful cinema; pleasantly surprising and heartbreaking

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2009)

I had been putting off Brokeback Mountain for quite a while, mainly because, being a homosexual myself, I feared one of the most popular, gay, mainstream cinema releases would be entirely overrated in many ways, such as the writing and direction wouldn't be right or true to what the film needed to do, or it just wouldn't be able to capture what I would be expecting and live up to what I hoped it would be able to deliver, to an extent. Yes, here I am having doubts on a film that I should have been very excited to see, but I had just figured that the Independent filmmakers had been doing it right and now that homosexuality as a subject was becoming more popular that it would be picked at and prodded until what was being viewed on screen was a disgrace. After the film was over, I could not believe I avoided it for as long as I did and I was completely delighted to find a magnificent movie, even one of the most surprisingly surpassing that I had seen, in regards to my exceptions on films before.
The story plot was really so touching and strongly perceived that I could feel what the main characters were going through, even though I had certainly never been in that exact situation, and the defining aspects of the plot were also due to the brilliant acting from both Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall who captured the characters perfectly. There was not a weak point of entertainment in this movie, for it keeps your full attention through out and doesn't strain away from the main purpose of the film, even if it does stray a little from the main point of the actual story, in general, if you can understand what I mean by that statement.
The execution was sheer ingeniousness everywhere you turned, and I could not have been as more content with the way this film ended up being as I was and still are. It was wonderful, and every film buff should at least consider giving it a chance, as they should many other homosexuality themed films, some of which I think are even better than this one, and not just cross them all out of their viewing queue because it is a homosexual movie, like a lot people in today's society would actually do. I loved it.