I will never be the same.

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2008)

I knew nothing about Brokeback Mountain before seeing it at the theater, and that is why I was knocked flat on my ass. I was totally unprepared and I felt I must have suffered a nervous breakdown--because, how could a "movie" do this to anyone. The "shock and awe" was too great. It was as if I'd suffered an emotional nuclear blast. At the same time, if I'd read Annie Proulx's short story before seeing the movie, I may not have gone into a theater, knowing how the movie would have exposed me. Therefore, I would have waited to see it on DVD, which for me, did not have the same affect. I'm glad I didn't know anything about Brokeback Mountain; even the suffering it caused me in those painful viewings. Because of that unbearable pain, is why I feel it took me and held me upside down by my feet and shook the hell out of me.
It has now been more then 2 years since I first saw this movie and its effect is still felt strongly. Life will never be the same and I'm glad for that.