Wonderful acting. Both Gyllenhaal and Ledger were great. The passion they show in the movie is amazing. It all makes a beautiful movie, with complications and tragic ending.
It is brilliant, and all the gay disgusting crap people talk about its just discrimination. They did not even watch closely, because is one of the greatest love story ever, far more hard to get through than a normal one.
want to see this because it won best picture with the NYFC, best drama picture at the golden globes, best picture with the BAFTA, and best picture with the LAFC
Wow. Not only was in absolutely disgusting, the sotry was crap and all of the characcters except maybe anne hathaway were completely unlike-able. Awful
I am a huge fan of Gyllenhaal's movies but it took me until now to watch this movie. I had heard so many different things about it, that is was boring...that it was too long...so now I have finally got an oppinion of my own!
In the very beginning when I saw the landscape in the movie and when I heard the music I just new I would like it. As the story continued and I got to follow Jack's and Ennis's life in the mountains I just got into it more and more. Both Jake and Heath is amazing in this movie. When I think about it, during the movie I forgot that it was actuly a movie I was watching and not a true story.
This movie was a pleasure for the eye to watch. Not just only for the gorgeous Jake Gyllenhaal but for the fantastic acting he and Heath presents.
From the bottom of my heart, this is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen, a story about forbidden love that just made me feel warm inside for days after. The soundtrack is also very beautiful and is now one of my fauvorites aswell.
If you have not seen this movie I highly recommend you to do so. I regret I have not seen this movie earlies because I am so in love with it that I don't know where to go.
The timeless, tragic romance that is so simple in its design, yet groundbreaking with one tiny detail. Anyone familiar with Annie Proulx?s original short story can attest to the seamless expansion of the feature length plot, without taking away from the two main characters. And there?s no denying the beauty of Ang Lee?s lenswork and direction and the daring performances of Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack, and especially Heath Ledger?s transcendent Ennis Del Mar. This one is going to be a true classic with time.
Very Good Film!! Quite Upsetting But Brilliant!! I Think This Is The Film That Made Heath Ledger Famous And Also His Role As The Joker In The Dark Knight Coming Soon (Obviously Before He Died)!! Jake Gyllenhaal Was Brilliant In It Aswell!! But In The Film The Gay Scenes Don't Interest Me At All!! R.I.P Heath Ledger!! This film should have won Best Picture (it probably didnt because MAYBE the Oscar critics are homophobic ha ha!!)
The scenery is breath taking, the story unusual since being homosexual in the 60's was taboo and still is to some people in this day and age, this film was great, although a bit long.
omg i friggin love this movie. and i know people are going to be all like "but ew its a gay movie" but its really not. it has a great storyline and i recommend this movie to everyone.
Wow..This movie was awesome (and nasty of course). Very unusual, well, it's because this movie was a love story between men (as a lover not as friends). The cast was perfect and full of stars. Jake Gyllenhaal really know how to play a gay (thankfully his not). Heath Ledger (R.I.P) play as the "girl" I guess but he took my attention. Both of them show perfect emotion. I'm understand why this movie receive it's oscars. Ang Lee direct a superb movie, the score? Oh yes, I really enjoyed it. Fantastic.
That Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, an epic mixture of a Western and a love story, was the prohibitive favourite for a Best Picture win at the Oscars a couple of years ago (losing it, unacceptably, to Crash) says a great deal about how far we have come as a society from the days when Rock Hudson kept his sexuality a secret out of fear that to do otherwise would ruin both his career and his life. That it is jokingly referred to as "the Gay Cowboy Movie" in major publications says a great deal about just how far we have to go.
Granted, this is clearly one of the most controversial films of the last decade, as homosexual love stories in mainstream cinema (not cinema itself) are rare enough, but for it to be so "graphic" and to star two masculine film stars such as Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, would always ensure it'd be brought to the forefront of the public attention. For the average straight male, this should, in theory, be a bit of a difficult ride, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that the sex scenes between Ledger and Gyllenhaal aren't nearly as revealing as the scenes between them and their respective wives.
It is perhaps Ang Lee's sly joke that shortly after the first gay love scene (containing mostly darkness, struggling, and heavy breathing) he gives us a good look at a sheep that's been ravaged by a wolf. It's as if he's asking us to consider which image is more difficult to take in. If we're honest with ourselves, the answer is probably the dead sheep. It is safe to say that the number of people who would find the images in Brokeback Mountain difficult to digest is far fewer than the number who would have problems with the subject matter itself.
More important than any trumped-up controversy is the film itself, which is nothing but captivating. With stunning landscapes, gorgeously photographed by Rodrigo Prieto, a haunting, evocative score by Gustavo Santaolalla, and Ang Lee's gentle touch, this is a truly beautiful film. Coming from a Chinese background, Lee (who, along with Santaolalla and screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, took home the Oscar the film itself should have gotten) understands the type of personal repression that's so inherent to this story. A great deal in this world is unspoken, yet understood. Ledger and Gyllenhaal's characters are under this assumption that they alone carry this burden, but many of the people close to them either know, or at least seem to know, and with that knowledge comes a great range of emotions from anger to sympathy.
At times you wish they had the courage to confide in those closest to them, that perhaps they would be able to find some redemption or comfort, but the potentially negative consequences weigh too heavily on their minds. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) has a vivid memory from his childhood of a gay man being brutally murdered, so any risk of that, no matter how small, is a risk he is unprepared to take. If there is any small bit of comfort for Ennis, it is that time may provide him relief. Perhaps not in Wyoming just yet, but in time.
Much has been made of the performances in Brokeback Mountain, and they are universally good, but the turn by Heath Ledger is stunning. He steals the entire film as he absolutely disappears inside his character. There's a tendency to assume he's just channelling Clint Eastwood, but he brings so many more layers to the performance. Every so often an established actor comes from nowhere to shock us with actual acting ability above and beyond anything they seemed capable of. Anyone who tells you they thought Heath Ledger had this in him is a damn liar. The world has truly lost a great actor. Jake Gyllenhaal, for his part, is sort of a microcosm of his entire career - good in one scene, average in the next, and a bit all over the map. His Jack Twist is the ying to Ennis' yang, but he seems to be spending too much energy showing us how good he can be instead of just being good. If the film has a weak link, he may be it.
Long story short, this is a great film, a heartbreaking subversion of the western by one of the world's greatest working directors and a piece of cinema that no true Film lover should afford to miss. It may be ten minutes too long and one of the lead characters may be simply good as opposed to great, but that's no reason to avoid seeing it. And neither is the subject matter, unless of course you hate seeing the entrails of sheep. If that's the case, just cover your eyes and it'll be over before you know it.
This is a beautiful film in all regards. The acting is perfect, the cinematography is stunning, the slow pace of the movie really works, and the story itself is captivating. I do not see this, as many others seem to, as an offensive film about gay lovers. I see this as a rather sad love story between two human beings who are caught between how they feel and how their society expects them to feel. An epic film.
Ang Lee's American cowboys. I really don't see the moral shock value or the controversy in this film. I thought it was great, specially for the direction and the sweet musical score. Fine movie.
I had my reservations about seeing this film but I'm glad that I did. Ledger and Gyllenhaal do good jobs of the main characters. Supporting cast are also good.
Watch a movie with two GAY cowboys? Why I am I even surprised even more, I should have grown used to the ever circulating junk out in that main stream of disease called society.
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