Thursday, January 05, 2006
Brokeback Mountain
Director Ang Lee skillfully crafts a powerful love story between two unlikely people giving a different meaning to the term, lonesome cowboy. Two young men meet while herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming during the summer of 1963 and develop a life-long friendship and connection. They go their separate ways, get married, and raise kids, but continue to meet for fishing trips over the next 20 years. It is a sad tale of tortured souls, clandestine meetings, and forbidden love. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams give outstanding performances. Ang Lee paints a beautiful and bleak picture using climate and the Wyoming countryside to set the mood of the film as the confused cowboys struggle with their feelings for each other in a time and place that would have no acceptance for their bond.
Alien gives it 3 “guilt, anger, and love” stars out of 4.
Director Ang Lee skillfully crafts a powerful love story between two unlikely people giving a different meaning to the term, lonesome cowboy. Two young men meet while herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming during the summer of 1963 and develop a life-long friendship and connection. They go their separate ways, get married, and raise kids, but continue to meet for fishing trips over the next 20 years. It is a sad tale of tortured souls, clandestine meetings, and forbidden love. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams give outstanding performances. Ang Lee paints a beautiful and bleak picture using climate and the Wyoming countryside to set the mood of the film as the confused cowboys struggle with their feelings for each other in a time and place that would have no acceptance for their bond.
Alien gives it 3 “guilt, anger, and love” stars out of 4.
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