Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005) by Kelsey K — 11 Jun 2013

Truly one of the best gay love stories of all time.

Brokeback Mountain is about two cowboys who take on a sheep-herding job together. As they work together for a while, they become real friends. One night they both get this feeling of want for the other person and they consummate their relationship.

The next morning, they try to forget about the whole thing. They both say that they are not queer.

They cannot help themselves but continue to love each other and have a happy time together on Brokeback Mountain.

When the job they were assigned to do is finished, they go their separate ways and they can't help but cry.

Ennis (Heath Ledger) meets a woman (Michelle Williams) and marries her and has two daughters. Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) moves to Texas to pursue his dream of being a rodeo cowboy and he meets a woman (Anne Hathaway) and they have a son.

After some years, the two men meet again and rekindle their relationship. But problems of unnaturalness and acceptance arise once Ennis's wife is traumatized after seeing Ennis and Jack roughly making out.

This film takes place on a 20-year period starting in 1963 when the men first meet. Because it is a little before only the beginning of the gay rights movement (June 1969) and the story also takes place in the conservative deep south, you can understand how some people wouldn't take kindly to gay people.

I feel like I could watch this a thousand times. Both Ledger and Gyllenhaal give breathtaking performances and the story is extremely well written and it is incredible how the two men found each other after many years because it was fate.

Brokeback Mountain, I give you a 100%.