Ang Lee's Cowboys

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2015)

A beautiful, epic Western, Brokeback Mountain's love story is imbued with heartbreaking universality thanks to moving performances by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Lee has taken the gay love story and put it where it should be-in the mainstream. Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them. Justice was done when Ang Lee won the Oscar for the Best Achievement in Directing. This movie has the simplicity and clarity of a fable wedded to the gnarled and taciturn physical realism of the Western. As I said justice was done when Ang Lee won the Oscar but some justice is due as Brokeback Mountain is a cinematic landmark but, unfortunately it's not in the IMDb Top 250 list. Please rate this movie.