Touching the heart, and breaking all boundaries

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2006)

The film sets it's scene well enough. From the opening shot, we can see that this film is set in the time of modern cowboys, in the year 1963. After all the film's hype, you might enter the film with high expectations... too high for some people's taste, as you are expecting a slow start. Well, the film leaps right into it's story, and within a few minutes, you will be soaring the heights of Brokeback Mountain.
Ennis (Heath Ledger) is the first of the two characters that we look at closely. He is a rough cowboy, with a tough past of family death, and sibling love. We don't see much of Jack's (Jake) past until later in the film. And then the scenes that all have been waiting for appear. The ones that were banned in areas of the US, and condemned by the catholic church. Jack and Ennis get intimate, Although you may feel that the film leaps into relationship too quickly, that is a small price to pay for such a wonderful film.
Steven Spielburg stands no chance these Oscars, and that's coming from a devoted Spielburg fan.