Brokeback Mountain

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2006)

What this movie comes down to is a love story, to be more specific, a story of love under difficult (almost impossible) circumstances. This kind of love stories have always been the most popular and we have often seen them. Despite being one of the best of them, Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" adds the situation of the lovers being gay, which is the trigger for (almost) all of their problems. Or, more exactly, the real problems are caused by the society, which doesn't accept homosexuality, and the main characters treatment of it. When Ennis (Heath Ledger) tells Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) the story of how two gay men living together were killed when he was a child and then shown to him and his brother as a deterrent, this was just a scene that I won't forget. Later in the movie this image comes up again and gives you a punch right into your stomach. Much critical praise came over "Brokeback Mountain", I would say: Fully deserved.