Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005) by Soni K — 16 Feb 2013

As if in a sense of mourning for the loss of Ledger, I rented "Brokeback Mountain" for the first time since its release in 2005.

Though I had wished I could have seen it back then, this time was probably the more opportune time to have done so, as the bittersweet nature of the film, combined with Ledger's recent passing, made the sadness of the situation that unfolded [in the film], all that more poignant and ultimately heartbreaking... and finally, for the first time all week since hearing the news (of his death), finally I was able to cry.

The film itself is one of the kind that pulls at the heart and stays with you forever [I know it'll stay with me].

The touching story of two cowboys who fall in love, despite the taboo, in the year 1963. Jack twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del mar (Heath Ledger).

The film was less about just "two gay cowboys", and much more about LOVE and longing, pure and simple.

The kind of love that transcends: repression, questioning, culture, sex, hetero/homo sexuality and society's norms and standards.

The love shared between the two, (as taboo as it would have been considered in that time and more over in that region of the US), was tantamount to a soul love, i.e. a love stripped of all its repression and questioning and uninhibited by "body"... in other words, free like the Brokeback mountains themselves.

One couldn't help but feel the pain and loss or the desperation and passion of both characters, and with each character.

One couldn't help but shed tears at/by the end at Ennis' loss of Jack through death... and of the world's loss through death of Heath Ledger!