Wyoming really is like that

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2005)

I grew up in Wyoming and I have to say that those characters really are like the people there. I don't know how he did it, but Ang Lee really captured Wyoming for me. I had flashbacks to growing up in Kemmerer, Story and Sheridan in her depiction of Riverton.
The real Riverton is quite a bit larger than the one in the movie, but there are plenty of little Wyoming towns just like that.
The same suffocating hopelessness and poverty, the same violence, the same narrow minds but good hearts, just like in the Wyoming of my memories.
I thought that the acting was outstanding and the script writing superlative. Ennis particularly did a good job acting with the few words he spoke, yet he spoke volumes with his mannerisms and his facial expressions. He is the epitome of the strong silent cowboy. He deserves and Oscar for this work.