Stunning success but not masterwork

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2006)

To be fair this movie is in year 2005's top 3 best movies. Two groups of people condemned this movie: one group is the people who cannot accept gay or gay movies. I am not American but from this movie I find surprisingly that in US so many people cannot accept homosexual  even they themselves are not homosexual they cannot accept other people doing that. Is American so conservative? By the way this pithy movie does not have many overheated homosexual plots, I saw some homosexual movies from Europe and Asia, compare with them Brokeback Mountain just like a CUT edition.
The other group is people who don't like art movies, they watch movie just for kill time: buy a box of popcorn, sit there for 90 minutes, don't need to use head, just watching something fighting or funny or stupid I heard some people said this movie is too slow, you know why? Because they are use to watch garbage movies, so when they step into the theater their brains just stop operating immediately, no wonder they will feel the movie is slow! Brokeback mountain's success is Ang Lee's success, 'Hulk' gave him a bash and made his Hollywood route almost end, but brokeback mountain is a victorious bid, Ang Lee's triumphant comeback brought him more respects and more honors.
Brokeback mountain is an excellent movie but is not an outstanding movie, it inherits Ang Lee's own style form Hsi Yen (1993) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), you can see Ang Lee's most movies normally combine art elements and commercial elements very well, they are sensitive, full of nuance, dainty, smooth and often haunt you by their spirits. But simultaneously, I often feel Ang Lee's movie cannot be called as 'masterpiece'. Compare with my favor directors such as David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Seigo Leone, and some movies of Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee seems still lack of something. I don't know what is it, but maybe eastern pedigree is Ang Lee's advantage, also it will be Ang Lee's weak point.