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Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2006)

I consider myself a great movie-watcher. What happened to me went totally out of control with this movie. It's been three days now, constantly obsessing everybody and myself with everything connected to this LOVE STORY...Legder is absolutely breath- taking...Jake as well...
The very fact that I bothered to register and write these few words is already a lot. I watched BBM three times now and cried every single one of them. One of the scenes that stroke me the most, and hasn't been mentioned here is when Ennis talks to his daughter at the end about her getting married. He asks her does her guy love her. When she confirms, for a brief moment there a shadow passes over his face and he looks across the window. He simply wants to make sure (if possible?) that his little girl and her man don't go through the same hell as they did.
As Roger Ebert from Chicago Suntimes wisely said, BBM is all about regret and missed opportunities, so a person can easily burst in tears for, say, not joining the marines or something. That's why all of us feel that bittersweet feeling like our hearts are going to just crack...That's why Ennis and Jack feel more real than we actually are.
I'm straight and don't even bother to explain to people who haven't seen it that it's not at all a gay-cowboy-agenda-driven movie.Simply, I believe that all of those who didn't get it have either never experienced forbidden or impossible love (and how lucky are they), or they never thought about their own personal regrets...Whatever, I'm just glad that I'm not at all alone in this private chaos of mine that BBM has so unexpectedly caused. If Heath doesn't get the Academy Award, still, it's a milestone role for him.