A Milestone in Film History

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2005)

The last time I felt this emotionally attached to a film was when my mother took my brother and me to see "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the summer of 1962. It's been a long time.
"Brokeback Mountain" is the most remarkable film I have ever experienced. It reaches into your heart and deep down into your gut and pulls out those feelings that we try most of our lives to suppress.
Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar and Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist bring to life two beautiful characters who turn their lives upside down trying to deal with their love for each other. Ang Lee, Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx and this wonderful cast have magically illustrated the importance of Shakespeare's message, "To thine own self be true."
If I could keep only one film in my collection it would be this one.