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Within this mountain (Brokeback Mountain) is a romantic tale of two men destined not to last. Academy Award winner Ang Lee is back with another critically acclaimed film based on a critically acclaimed shory story by E. Annie Proulx.
Tagged as a gay cowboy hit by some, ranch-hand Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) unstoppably sparkled an illicit romantic affair with rodeo cowboy wannabe Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) concealed in the lush mountain north of Wyoming, summer of 1963.
It didn't come easy to them, however, as they parted ways without closure after their sheep herding stint. Them raising their respective families. Then after four years, see each other again and continued on their "friendship", as the trailer describes their relationship, with fishing trip as alibi to their wives till the year 1983.
This epic film is one of the most faithful screenplay and direction that has ever been shown in Hollywood. From the storylines to the desciption and character depiction -- everything captured and book-based. Ang Lee made E. Annie Proulx proud of him.
Among all films that embraces homosexuality, Brokeback Mountain tackled the issues of homophobic society powerfully, in an honest and in the simplest way by way of narrating the very closely undisclosed relationship of Ennis and Jack -- nothing in direct approach. It is in what was instilled in Ennis' mind during childhood that makes their togetherness remarkably invisible for nearly twenty years -- at least except to Alma, Ennis' wife, whose life shrinked to mute despicability of her husband after witnessing the ghastly behavior pf tje secret lovers as she stood in front of her doorstep.
Without explicitly dictating outright to society the perceived correct way of viewing this kind of relationship, it is magnificently enough to come to mind that being in such kind of "thing", as Ennis repeatedly calls their affair, is as inevitable as it is to heterosexuals. We never can tell when and who this beating thing we have chooses --as Jack forcefully and earnestly told Ennis,"I wish I knew how to quit you."
Sure enough, conservatives have their own mind about the flick. Nevertheless, we feel bad but do not rebuke them -- they need respect as much as we do. In a world diversified with ethnicity and faith we never concur altogether -- disparity remains to be the distinguishing factor to all of us.
Heath Ledger's performance as taciturn Ennis gives him a place in Hollywood that will forever be praised and revered -- made a stunning remark engraved in his name. Jake Gyllenhaal, on the other hand, is equally brilliant as Jack twist, he made us see love is a formidable force of nature. And, there we have the excellent Michelle Williams who actually stole the movie away from Ledger with her heart-breaking performance as the homosexually duped wife. All three actors along with Anne Hathaway not withstanding were from teenybopper roles now proving their versatility and profundity as sober actors.
Albeit, the first thirty to forty-five minutes of the film is a bit dragging due to it's mute scenes added with the hard southern accent used by Ledger, it still was able to hold my attention to the end. And it didn't fail to deliver a scintillating picture.
Let's all hope that life for these people will be beautiful and given a chance to live it the way they wanted to ( after all, we all deserve to be happy).
Tagged as a gay cowboy hit by some, ranch-hand Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) unstoppably sparkled an illicit romantic affair with rodeo cowboy wannabe Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) concealed in the lush mountain north of Wyoming, summer of 1963.
It didn't come easy to them, however, as they parted ways without closure after their sheep herding stint. Them raising their respective families. Then after four years, see each other again and continued on their "friendship", as the trailer describes their relationship, with fishing trip as alibi to their wives till the year 1983.
This epic film is one of the most faithful screenplay and direction that has ever been shown in Hollywood. From the storylines to the desciption and character depiction -- everything captured and book-based. Ang Lee made E. Annie Proulx proud of him.
Among all films that embraces homosexuality, Brokeback Mountain tackled the issues of homophobic society powerfully, in an honest and in the simplest way by way of narrating the very closely undisclosed relationship of Ennis and Jack -- nothing in direct approach. It is in what was instilled in Ennis' mind during childhood that makes their togetherness remarkably invisible for nearly twenty years -- at least except to Alma, Ennis' wife, whose life shrinked to mute despicability of her husband after witnessing the ghastly behavior pf tje secret lovers as she stood in front of her doorstep.
Without explicitly dictating outright to society the perceived correct way of viewing this kind of relationship, it is magnificently enough to come to mind that being in such kind of "thing", as Ennis repeatedly calls their affair, is as inevitable as it is to heterosexuals. We never can tell when and who this beating thing we have chooses --as Jack forcefully and earnestly told Ennis,"I wish I knew how to quit you."
Sure enough, conservatives have their own mind about the flick. Nevertheless, we feel bad but do not rebuke them -- they need respect as much as we do. In a world diversified with ethnicity and faith we never concur altogether -- disparity remains to be the distinguishing factor to all of us.
Heath Ledger's performance as taciturn Ennis gives him a place in Hollywood that will forever be praised and revered -- made a stunning remark engraved in his name. Jake Gyllenhaal, on the other hand, is equally brilliant as Jack twist, he made us see love is a formidable force of nature. And, there we have the excellent Michelle Williams who actually stole the movie away from Ledger with her heart-breaking performance as the homosexually duped wife. All three actors along with Anne Hathaway not withstanding were from teenybopper roles now proving their versatility and profundity as sober actors.
Albeit, the first thirty to forty-five minutes of the film is a bit dragging due to it's mute scenes added with the hard southern accent used by Ledger, it still was able to hold my attention to the end. And it didn't fail to deliver a scintillating picture.
Let's all hope that life for these people will be beautiful and given a chance to live it the way they wanted to ( after all, we all deserve to be happy).
