A superb film, See it if you can!

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2005)

This film was over-hyped to begin with so I had some worries about whether it would live up to it, so many people were interested in going just to see Heath Ledger playing a gay guy, or to see something they felt was taboo until now. Seeing the film dispelled all my worries and over came the hype, the film is simply marvelous and the run up to it was drowned out by the simple beauty of a love story exquisitely told. Though the film moves slowly it is by no means boring, the acting fills up the space and the beautiful filming makes up for the sparse dialog. None of the hype could even touch the film once it started, every aspect was flawless and drew me in easily. After leaving the theater my friends and I couldn't say much about the film, we had no complaints and no vocabulary to explain what we had seen. Nothing in this film is the 'oscar buzzed' hype of Hollywood, it is too simple and frank for that, films don't seem to come out too often that really show people the way they are. This film does everything a good film should, see it if you can; I don't think any other film this year will touch you like this one.