Two hearts

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2006)

I'm a huge fan of Ang Lee- movies. I thought "Sense and the Sensibility" is one of the all time's greatest relationship-film. Lee is the kind of director who is not afraid to show the cruel and brutal sides of relationships. Also his directing is very blunt but still so amazingly beautiful.
"Brokeback Mountain" tells a story about two unemployed cowboys who manage to get a job on the mountains herding sheep. With the lack of entertainment the two fall in love.
When "Brokeback Mountain" came available for the big audience I read many writings that the movie was a gay-cowboy flick. I have always been a big supporter of minorities. I had waited for an honest film to speak the things as they are. Homoerotic love isn't any extraordinary as heterosexuality is. Ang Lee proved this point to be true. So, I didn't want call "Brokeback Mountain" a gay-cowboy movie. I think is a bad underestimation of the subject.
Again Lee's cast was just brilliant. Heath Ledger and the heart drop Jake Gyllenhaal made strong performances that were rawly beautiful and sensitive. Their chemistry was unspoken. Michelle Williams made a touching role of betrayed wife. Anne Hathaway was surprisingly good as the female love of Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist. But who made a biggest impression was Heath Ledger. His portrayal of southern grumpy cowboy Ennis Del Mar was his best performance yet. Too bad he was up against superb Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Academy Awards. Ledger has a promising career head of him if he manages to get Del Mar-kind of roles.
Ang Lee is famous of being a director who aims for showing true feelings. For this time Lee got an young cast that was willing to do everything what he asked for. Lee enjoys doing pictures with young cast because they are easy to make do even the most uncomfortable scenes without any murmurs. On the set of "Sense and the Sensibility" Lee got the nickname of brute because of his rough directing.
Lee's humane way to make people to become what their feel is worth all efforts. "Brokeback Mountain" is beautifully cruel and crude with high emotional sense and sensibility. Annie Proulx's short story is made just the way it should have. Thanks for Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry's insightful script and the amazing cast.
"Brokeback Mountain" is an ordinary story of two people who just happen to fall in love. It's a story of a universal love. Love and nothing else.
I recommend it to everybody who have ever deeply loved someone.