My all-time favorite film

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2006)

Until this year, I had never seen a film in a theater more than once. By this summer, I had seen this film 33 times in different theaters and traveled a total of at least 1,700 miles to see it locally and in cities as far away as 180 miles. Even since it came out on DVD, "Brokeback Mountain" absolutely has not lost any of its power.
It's quite simply a kind of story I'd never seen before--a story of a love between two non-stereotypical, non-urban men. I relate to their environment to some extent, having grown up in a rural area and now living 20 miles away in a city. It was refreshing to see gay men in a way of life that so many--including many gay men!--see as totally foreign to them and an impossible occurrence in real life.
But it's not foreign and it's not impossible. Gay men really are everywhere--in Wyoming, in Texas, in the world of cowboys and rodeos, in the world of cattle and sheep ranching. If even one person has come to realize this, or changed his/her mind about how "normal" it is for someone to love someone of the same sex, because of "Brokeback Mountain," then this film was very much worth making.