Cast Aside Your Prejudices and Enjoy this Great Human Drama

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2006)

It took me a long time to actually give this movie a chance. I watch its nominations for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards and i scolded. I made fun of it, the "Gay Cowboy" movie. I thought the homosexual theme was the reason it was getting nominated. And I stayed bitter for awhile.
But as months passed, id see the advertisements, id see it on the rental shelf. I kept getting curious. I kept having the assumption, that yeah know maybe there's more to it. It took me till the start of August to shake off my friends and my own criticisms', prejudices, and such.
The movie that played on my TV in front of me, was not the "Gay Cowboy" movie i had made up in my head. It was one of the most beautiful movies, one of the most beautiful human stories I have seen in awhile, at least out of modern cinema.
Heath and Jake give the performances of there careers, by taking possibly the best role's of there lives. Both do sensational jobs, and yet Philip Seymour Hoffman, deserved the best actor Oscar that he received. These two men though, fully deserved there nods.
The movie is about two lonely people. Broken people, broken from there past who end up fatefully on the same job tending to sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Heath plays Ennis, a quiet, soft spoken young man, and Jake plays Jack, more out-spoken. The two seem opposites but somehow there are similarities that they share.
One fateful night the two end up in bed together, and a romance begins. But the problem is that its a forbidden romance, its shunned upon, even dangerous, and Ennis knows this, to a fault, and possibly dwells on it to much, and the two part ways after the summer. They meet there future wives, marry, have kids. But there lives remain unfulfilled. I don't give anything away from saying that, cause there is so much depth so many things that go wrong, and Ennis is hard headed, as much as Jack wants him, it tears him apart, because of Ennis' fears.
And essentially that is what the story is about, but what happens on the mountain, or in there personal lives, is bread and butter of the story. Where do they make it after years and years of secrecy, what happens to them, will anything change, can there love exist like it should, without destroying these men.
Perhaps this review isn't very clear, but the movie is incredible, cast aside what religious or personal prejudices you may have, and enjoy a great human story. I did.