Uhhhhh.....

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2006)

It speaks glaringly to me that the author of the short story is a woman from Connecticut writing about gay sheepboys (they are NOT cowboys) in the West. Isn't one of the primary rules of writing that one writes what one knows about? To me, as a Colorado woman with children living in a comfortable suburb, for the author to tackle this topic is much the same as me deciding to write The Kite Runner. I consider myself a compassionate, tolerate woman who simply loves humanity. I had no problem whatsoever with the topic and was looking forward to seeing something truly thought provoking and touching. I love Heath Ledger and looked forward to another performance from him. Perhaps I'm simply too obtuse, but to me there was no true character development and, in fact, no story development. We went from two guys herding sheep, saw essentially no evidence of an emotional connection developing between them, and then they jump into a tent and go for it and the story takes off, assuming that we have somehow bought into an intense relationship that we never saw develop. I was really disappointed. I'll be even more disappointed if this film continues to take home awards. A bunch of type about nothing, really.