Love triangles too many to count!

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2019)

A remote Montana ranch with three varied and opinionated brothers and their dad virtually explodes in testosterone when a pretty young woman lands in their midst. The love triangles are too many to count, but most of them revolve around the wild, black sheep, moody, rule and heart-breaking brother Tristan (Brad Pitt).
Watching the film in 1994 at Union Station of Washington DC with my girlfriend Carolyn, we were delighted by the urban audience. Unlike the suburban audiences we were used to, this one - composed primarily of young black women, did not hold back on expressing their emotions. There was a lot of squealing from this segment of the audience during the sex scene.
According to one critic Legends of the Fall is a "cheesy melodrama with too much crying." While the film did contain a lot of unfortunate events and obligatory tears, there is more depth to the film than this. For one thing, the cast of Aidan Quinn (Alfred), Anthony Hopkins (dad), Julia Ormond (Susannah), Pitt (Tristan) and Bart the Bear (bear), was captivating and fun to watch. The location is gorgeous and so is the cinematography. I also enjoyed the intriguing storylines, the captivating drama and wondering about how the love triangles would play out. Legends of the Fall is based on a novel by Jim Harrison. The story is set in the early part of the last century.