Surprising !

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2006)

I just saw the movie about a week ago and I have just one word to say : "Splendid!". Really when I heard about that movie telling the story of two gay cowboys I was curious but never expecting something like this.
As everyone knows, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who meet on Brokeback Mountain during the summer of 1963. We get more and more into the story as their complicity takes a huge place on the screen to finally bloom into a beautiful but really complicated love story.
Sincerely, I really wasn't expecting such an awesome performance from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Heath is incredible when playing drunk, half-sleeping full of desire macho man but also a very disturbed in-love, vulnerable guy. Jake was also very good as the desperate lover who missed his man so much all the time. They also looked like real lovers in the film, which contributed a lot to giving that intense atmosphere to the movie. Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway were also very credible as their wives.
Ang Lee did a very great job in directing, delivering some extremely intense scenes, such as a "reunion" between Jack and Ennis, that ends with a beautiful, intense kiss. I loved the way the film was shot, the location it was shot in, and about everything in the movie.
Although this is one of my favorite movies ever, I must admit that it has some weak points, for example some characters just seemed to have no particular reason for being there, as some others just disappear after a while, with no explanation. Also some scenes were just not perfect but come on, nothing really is...;-) There's is also the end that isn't so clear but I think this is better when you have a slight doubt and your own idea of how the story really ends, or the answers to the questions that are not answered in the movie.
However, Brokeback Mountain is touching, the actors are quite good, it'll transport you in another world... and you might just not get over it for a couple of days... Believe me, this was really worth its Golden Globe !