Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

Released: December 16 2005

• Director: Ang Lee
• Leading characters: Heath Ledger - Ennis Del Mar, Jake Gyllenhaal - Jack Twist
• Drama
• Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence
• #1034 on list

While working together near Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain in 1963, sheepherders Jack Twist  and Ennis Del Mar begin an increasingly passionate affair. But keeping their relationship a secret from their wives proves agonizing and all-consuming. *taken from Netflix

Everyone knows this movie, the movie that Larry H. Miller refused to play in his Utah theatres claiming that the film represented a danger to family values. The movie that shook the nation and the world. It was also banned in China because of the homosexual nature of the film.
A movie that John nor I wanted to see, not because of the content though. As many know I'm pro-gay so I wasn't offended by that, I just didn't have any desire to see it.
Well there it sat on the list, we had no choice, we had to watch it. So I added it to our Netflix instant play list and waited for John to consent to watching it.

While waiting I decided to expand my knowledge of the film, I read the plot so I could really know what it was about instead of going on what I've heard from friends, friends who had never even seen the film.
The plot made my interests grow so I started reading some trivial facts which finally cemented my curiosity and I was actually excited to see it.
This isn't the first gay movie to hit theatres like most seem to think, in fact the list of gay movies is huge. Remember The Birdcage with Robin Williams & Nathan Lane? Fabulous, but back to the movie at hand.

We watched Brokeback last weekend and I wouldn't say it's one I'd own but it really wasn't half bad.
It's based on the short story by Annie Proulx that was published in The New Yorker in 1997 and is said to be one of Heath Ledger's greatest works.
There are some violent love scenes which left me confused and disoriented but I just decided that they're manly men and that's how manly men like to be loved. Other than that the story is very good, it goes through both men's lives and how they're trying to live the way they want but also the way the world wants.

During is first weekend release where it only played in 5 U.S. theatres it set the records highest pre-screen gross of any non-animated  film in history, it also cost so little to make that it recouped its cost during the first week it was released.
The movie was expected to win 2005's Best Film and the Academy Awards and the crowd was shocked when Crash came out on top.

The trivia on this movie alone is reason to watch it, but don't come crying to me if you get offended. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.