One of the Greatest Movies of All Time

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2006)

There just hasn't been a movie this powerful made in America in years. It's an extraordinary confluence of the right director, the right screenwriters, the right actors, and the right time. By now everyone knows that the two lovers in the film are men, not a man and a woman. That in itself is pretty amazing. But plenty of movies have done that already. What this movie does is show that any two people--gay, straight, or anything else--can mess up their lives if they fall in love and can't figure out how to cope with their feelings. In this case, there's also pressure from society, but you could say that of Romeo and Juliet too, or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--what makes this movie so startlingly beautiful is how the director et al. puts you inside the heads of two very likable people, and causes you to feel for them in ways you might not have felt before. You leave this movie when the two hours is over, but the movie never really leaves you.
This movie will immediately make it on the top 10 lists of all time movies, and deservedly so.