brokeback mountain

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2006)

yes-BBM has got me good!! and I'm I the only one sitting alone watching this incredible film?!? no-I suppose not, but I needed to see this on my own-and this was my third time...if only to let it out-a good hard cry.
this is by far--the most beautiful film I have seen. And let me tell you-I'm in complete awe of Ledgers and Gyllenhaal's performance. What a beautiful pair of actors-the courage and downright frankness of their ability to show such love for one-another. And I hate that 'oh but they must be gay to play those roles' as I've been asked. you only need to have lived and loved to know how to pull this off-and obviously they have. I've been slowly pulled into this film, completely overwhelmed by the story. Who hasn't been there with that embrace they have after being apart so many years...the giddiness, the tired yearning and eventually the unbelievable pain and lust one feels for one-another after so long apart. I'am Jakes' Jack Twist-I too feel the need, the complete and utter love that I have for my Ennis has me in a hold that I can sometimes barely stand. I feel as frustrated as Jack--but sooo in love that I will do anything to keep my Ennis, no question about it. I have been in 'holes' that my Ennis has dug for us in the early years of our now blissful 18 years together-my partner and I. And we have survived, and loved one another so much more for it. BBM has got me good-and I feel the Jack in me, ooh what a beautiful man and the pain, the pain for the love I have is shown in that incredible embrace that Jack and Ennis share on the mountain-on that last trip where Ennis comes up behind Jack while he's standing looking so serene, and whispers something to the effect of 'falling asleep on me twist?...'I still can't get this image out of my head, and I would love to know exactly what was it that Ennis says to Jack before they part once again?..and the soundtrack--so surreal, so haunting, the song 'the wings'is without mention(as many of you know) just....I don't have words to describe what that song does to me... and the opening theme, and definitely Rufus' Maker Makes.. thank you Ang Lee, and yes we do somehow have it good living here in S. Cal. as compared to rural towns out west...we take for granted what we have, and it takes something like BBM to bring us back down to earth. I'll never be the same for it-better?!?perhaps, tortured somehow aren't we all. And as for seeing it in the theater by yourself--once you've taken your loved one, and anyone else you care about so they can experience it...it's the only way. I'm hooked, and I need my brokeback mountain somehow, somewhere.