Did not expect to like it

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2006)

I put off seeing the movie until last week, and was very surprised how much I enjoyed it. I saw a DVD screener with a friend who's a movie critic, and afterwards I watched most of it again. I'm surprised it didn't win best picture, but then again I haven't seen Crash.
The screenplay, cinematography, directing, acting, everything was there. One scene made me a bit uncomfortable, but I thought everything was done very tastefully.
What set this apart from other movies with gay characters is that it really didn't have anything to do with being gay per se. Make one of the men a woman and you would hardly need to change a thing about the movie. It's about star-crossed lovers, for want of a better term.
And I must say that seeing the two attractive men together was unexpectedly sexy for a heterosexual female....