Beautiful movie. Great acting and wonderful surroundings. A tragic love story !!

Anyone else seen it ?

I'm interested in seeing it after hearing so much about it, but I hear its not exactly the sort of film you go to see with a gang of mates -_-

I really want to see it. I couldn't see it on cinema, and now I'm waiting for the DVD. It looks very good! ^_^

Nope. U right about that. U might wanna go and see it with a female.

Saw it twice. Blubbed twice. One of my favourite films ever. :wub:

 

Stunning acting all round, subtle dialogue, wonderful screenplay.

 

:)

Shame it didn't get mote oscars though. But the competition was pretty fierce this year.

My all time favourite film

dídnt see it, but wanna see it :cheer:

Yes, Fab film and some great background music.

I saw it with my other half.

Can't wait to get my hands on the DVD. Sometime in April I believe, well I hope so.

Can't comment on the Oscars, as I haven't seen the other films that were in contention for best film. Can't remember what won though.

 

 

 

Yes, Fab film and some great background music.

I saw it with my other half.

Can't wait to get my hands on the DVD. Sometime in April I believe, well I hope so.

Can't comment on the Oscars, as I haven't seen the other films that were in contention for best film. Can't remember what won though.

 

Crash won, but I havent seen it either.

See it on a double bill with Havoc after it

See it on a double bill with Havoc after it

 

both with Anne Hathaway just in case you are wondering

Saw it last night. Couldn't really connect with their plight, I felt sorrier for their wives, particularly Michelle Williams's character (which was beautifully played).

 

I thought both Walk the Line and Crash were far superior.

It's not a movie for everybody, as the glacial pacing may put some off. Some might not even like romances. Some, like Penny, might not be able to connect with the characters.

 

I absolutely loved it - it wasn't preachy or melodramatic, it was simply sublime. Here's an excerpt from a review that I read online, that I felt totally summed up the movie -

 

Ang Lee’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is amongst the very best movies of 2005. It is, very easily, the best romantic film of 2005. This is a tragic tale. A film about love through societal repression as well as personal repression. When one looks for love in one’s lives – we’re conditioned pretty much from birth to look for someone “like†ourselves, but not “too much like†ourselves.

 

Depending where in the country one is brought up or how intolerant or religious one’s parents and community is – Love is defined as that thing that happens between a man and a woman that results in a family. This film begins in 1950’s Wyoming and this is not the location where one would hatch a same-sex romance.

 

I found myself, as I was watching BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, counting myself lucky to live in Austin, Texas 2005. Not because the passions I have in life are forbidden, but because – no matter how I “turned†out as a human being, the community of Austin welcomes you. Here – Watching Heath Ledger in this – it’s just excruciatingly sad.

 

Heath is an uneducated man. Life has pretty much unloaded a c**p on him his entire life. Raised by an intolerant father, who died too early. Raised by siblings that jettisoned them as soon as they could. Almost no schooling. He wasn’t raised or educated to be given the confidence to explore the options that life presents one. Was he Heterosexual before Jake’s Jack Twist came along? Not really. He wasn’t sexual at all. He assumed that his life would be like every other life he’d seen. He would move forward in the normal manner. He’d be a cowboy, he’d have a wife and kids. That’s all anyone could ask for. And then, along came Jack Twist. He couldn’t fight his feelings. Feelings he hates and doesn’t understand. He loves Jack Twist, but could never say that. He wants to live with Jack Twist, but he could never do that. Why? Fear. Fear that the world would punish him, that God would punish him, that he’d be killed for that love. The idea of moving to a community that was more accepting of that lifestyle just doesn’t dawn on him. Where would that be? He only knows the county in which he lives. The state he calls home. He’s paralyzed by fear, economy and ignorance to just pick up and start over with the only other person that makes him feel loved. Heath’s Ennis Del Mar is one of the best performances of 2005. The character and the performance are absolutely riveting. He suffers no insult and yet will allow himself no bliss. Life is hard and he’s a hard man, he likes to think.

 

Then there’s Jake Gyllenhaal’s character. Here is someone with a greater level of education. He knows what he wants in life, but again – he doesn’t really know how or where to live out of the closet. He knows to be careful. And perhaps the most sad thing that either of these men do, is have a family to protect their mutual “secret livesâ€Â. The idea that they wear the mask of heterosexuality. That they do the wife and kids thing – that they treat their wives with a level of disdain. Shutting themselves off emotionally from them, forcing fake smiles and half hearts. It’s so sad. Jake’s character – you get a sense feels that way about his entire family life. With Heath. He loves his daughters, but then uses them to further distance himself from the happiness he would otherwise have.

 

That this story is about two men – it really is the same story as ROMEO & JULIET – it’s a forbidden love story. It’s Tristen and Isolde – it goes back forever. Two people that shouldn’t love one another, but do. Two lovers that risk ruin to dare love one another.

 

The story is just brutally honest and brutally real.

Then there’s Jake Gyllenhaal’s character. Here is someone with a greater level of education. He knows what he wants in life, but again – he doesn’t really know how or where to live out of the closet. He knows to be careful. And perhaps the most sad thing that either of these men do, is have a family to protect their mutual “secret livesâ€Â. The idea that they wear the mask of heterosexuality. That they do the wife and kids thing – that they treat their wives with a level of disdain. Shutting themselves off emotionally from them, forcing fake smiles and half hearts. It’s so sad. Jake’s character – you get a sense feels that way about his entire family life. With Heath. He loves his daughters, but then uses them to further distance himself from the happiness he would otherwise have.

 

That this story is about two men – it really is the same story as ROMEO & JULIET – it’s a forbidden love story. It’s Tristen and Isolde – it goes back forever. Two people that shouldn’t love one another, but do. Two lovers that risk ruin to dare love one another.

 

The story is just brutally honest and brutally real

 

I just hope Tristen and Isolde isnt as slow as brokeback.

is is a lovestory or the story of a love between two people of the same sex ?

 

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Just watched half of this and had to turn it off because it made me feel really sad. :(

Just watched half of this and had to turn it off because it made me feel really sad. :(

 

oh man if you were sad in the middle you'd have been suicidal by the end! I was a blubbering wreck when I saw this but I'd say it was one of my favourite movies of all time though I can't really explain why.

oh man if you were sad in the middle you'd have been suicidal by the end! I was a blubbering wreck when I saw this but I'd say it was one of my favourite movies of all time though I can't really explain why.

I can't bring myself to watch any more because I literally can't stop feeling sad. Every time I think of the film I feel really depressed, it's horrible. And yet part of me really wants to see how it ends. :(

I can't bring myself to watch any more because I literally can't stop feeling sad. Every time I think of the film I feel really depressed, it's horrible. And yet part of me really wants to see how it ends. :(

You will literally f***ing DROWN IN TEARS.