Brokeback Mountain Best Picture 2006

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2006)

In my opinion, the Academy Awards screwed up and awarded Best picture to the wrong movie. Without question in my mind and in many others, Brokeback Mountain was THE best picture of the year. Truly an outstanding movie with fine performances by Ledger and Gyllenhaal. When watching their performances, it is easy to get lost in the love that they show for each other and to sympathize with their characters. Society put them in the positions that they found themselves and society prevented them from being who they truly were. The universality of this movie is Love. This isn't just a gay cowboy movie; in fact they are ranch hands and not cowboys. You will be drawn into the picture and it will haunt your very soul as you will recognize the truth of the movie.