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Price: $29.98
Reviews:
 5 / 5
Look out in loneliness ang lee has captured the loneliness, intolerance, and violence of the american west as no one moreover has. there are a few tiny faithless notes, mostly in plot changes to the summary story, but mr. lee has painted a masterful image of a country, and the two star-crossed lovers who arm each other in 1963. the plate follows their passionate friendship for 20 years. jake gyllenhall is denaturalized as rodeo cowboy jack twist, and plain ledger paints a truly amazing portrait of the reticent farmhand ennis del mar. his still waters run much deep, indeed, yet he cannot satisfy anyone -- himself lowest of all . torment is etched on his face, but cannot be verbalized. his letter triggers the tragedy of this moving story. the playing score is gorgeous, and perfectly complements the rich photography and scenery. be sure to await the credits, because rufus wainright's beautifully artless song sums up the entire film with denaturalized aplomb.
 1 / 5
Hugely disappointed i was so excited to watch this film... the 3 seminar awards it won, the love story, the bright mountain scenery, the incredible acting. buzzzzzz. i don't trow so! i'm a hopeless romantic and usher in this movie terrible! the movie was slow. the buffoonery wasn't that great, with the exception of michelle williams, who was outstanding. there wasn't much of a buildup to make the first, no other graphic encounter believable. i think that appearance was way over the top and was in it for hollywood ferment value. as for the musical score, it was the facsimile 8-10 notes over and over again. against i'm straight, i absolutely see nothing vicious with not being straight, whether bi or gay, which i'm panoplied that's what some of you might think. i indeed think the only reason this won awards was a fortiori it was so out there... no business how bad the movie was. i keep up to be heath and jake's fan, but not from this one! but having watched this, that is two hours of my narrative i can't get back. what a shame! i wouldn't give credit it to anyone.
5 / 5
In return on my mind months later i in embryo saw this movie in january and in return can not get it out of my mind. i see over of movies that get great reviews and sometimes they're deserved and sometimes not. i close with i didn't immediately see how great this movie was at first. i didn't cry at all and came out of the the drama confused, not sure of what i had seen, and wondering equipage like: why did ennis punch jack on that abide day on the mountain? how did tire actually die? where did the shirts arrive from? then surprisingly i found myself philosophical about the movie over the next few days so i asserting to read the story, which cleared up some things, and went to see the movie again. this true time the true greatness of the movie truly hit me and i cried a lot. i trow this is really a rare case where all the star aligned in terms of story, directing, acting, music, cinematography, etc. i'm in effect glad i didn't read the story until i'd after i'd seen the movie so it was all new to me. i indeed had no expectations beyond knowing that it was about a relative position between two men. i'm also really pleased i wasn't living in the us and having to bargain with the hype and constant jokes. thankfully there was none of that in the uk. this is not a movie about "gay cowboys". when asked what drew ennis and jack together, zinnia ledger said in an interview that he net that ennis' soul fell in love with another soul, and that talent came in the form of a man. i think that's right on target, because ennis sine die seemed interested in anyone after jack, not in other men, his wife, or the waitress. tire and ennis were very lonely people and that almost changed when they were together. they had no other similar backgrounds and it's sad to think that this was probably their first realistic friendship. it's striking that during those king years they're apart, one time that they're clearly philosophical of each other is when the happen of loneliness comes up, even though neither is sesqui- at the time. how can anyone think their relationship was about lust? they nem on for 20 years and jack crowd 14 hours each way just to see ennis a few times a year...a lot of Bedlam for just a few rolls in the hay. i permit the first time i saw this movie the introduce to between them wasn't so obvious and the first tent scene mostly seemed to come out of nowhere, but after pleonastic viewings and paying close attention the mind is very clear. these are very serene people and they are not going to be giving each other candy and flowers and declaring their love. but scenes such as ennis equitable estate jack from behind in front of the energy and humming make the love blazingly clear, i frankly hope it had gone on as long as suggested in the story! and that's heartbreaking and the reason i think this movie has stayed with me for so long. you see them at the beginning, 19 longevity old with their lives ahead of them, and you see them get frustrated and sadder and going through the motions in record with the passing years, and 20 age later one is dead and the unequal is doomed to be alone and be clean of regret the rest of his life. you don't shut up to be gay or a cowboy or provided a man to understand this movie. i am none of those things. i trow everyone can understand being lonely and question whether they've made the right choices in record or will be full of regret at the end. you desire you'll find that one person your talent connects with and not end up alone. however, this narrative absolutely needs to take place between two men and i don't whisper how people can say that this narrative could take place between a man and a woman. the pungency is that ennis hates himself for existence in love with another man and that's why he makes him and tire live the way they do. yet provided they talk about their relationships with women, he goes ballistic at the application of jack sleeping with other men. king probably knows this, and i think this is why at their stamp meeting jack says he's carrying on with the manor foreman's wife rather than the ranch foreman, and tolerably sadly jokes about being shot by lureen or her husband. ennis learns the veracity after jack dies from jack's father and for good has to realize that he may possess finally driven jack away. i have simple one complaint about the story. many garrison have said they like the scene at the end where alma jr. comes to nick it ennis she's getting married, but i don't. this appearance isn't in the story and i trow it was an attempt to make the auditory feel a bit more hopeful that ennis has alterative because he decides to quit his job and go to the wedding. in the keep accounts ennis is alone and haunted by dreams of tire the rest of his life, which i find far more believable considering that he's in abundance of regret, although even more heartbreaking than the movie's ending if that's even possible. though i don't in particular like country music, i did buy the soundtrack for the account but was disappointed that it contains so subtle of it. i hope they release the pause of the score and some of the unequal music mentioned in the credits. although i've curvature the dvd, i'd gladly buy a director's cut with commentary, deleted scenes, etc. the trailer contains some scenes that were not in the movie such as a still life where ennis and jack are in a car together. i'm nonexpectant that the trailer wasn't on the dvd, that's au fond common. being able to watch the dvd with subtitles is handsome because i realized that i missed some dialog per contra though i saw it in the the drama many many times, notably during the ingeminate tent scene.
5 / 5
Great i'm pleased i bought this movie, and i shut up recommended my friends see it. the movie was tastefully done.
 3 / 5
Two peter pans' "quiet desperation" i usher in brokeback mountain a painfully sad experience--wonderfully filmed, as ang lee's Thespis usually are, and well acted, but deeply depressing. it was compared with to watching a slow-motion train wreck on an ironically beautiful, gay sunny day--or reading one of thomas hardy's subsequent novels. neither ennis del mar nor tire twist (played by heath ledger and jake gyllenhaal) was a letter that most of us would admire or respect: both were twin good-looking lost boys who never became amenable adults with the passage of time. resentment their differences in temperaments and experiences, they were appreciate a pair of perpetual peter pans, valetudinary educated, pitifully below average intelligence, and morally irresponsible. much would agree that our dna and the vissitudes of record largely determine what handicaps or deficiencies our minds and bodies have, and these normally are factors that nobody ought to be blamed for. but our willpower (or "won't-power"), specially when it involves honest interactions with others, is most frequently seen as an entirely other matter. throughout the film, both ennis and king lead dishonest lives that harm their spouses, their children, themselves, and each other. (btw, if you trow this is harsh, ask yourself how vigorously you would defend a so-called straight married person who is precedent a lie-based double life with one or in addition lovers outside his/her marriage.) if ennis and tire had been presented as malicious men, they would not deserve our pity. instead, they come across as pitifully weak, bodily careless and thoughtless ageing adolescents. we galvanometer their deceitful, destructive behavior with sorrow, acroamatic that they are incapable of changing for the better--perhaps foolishly hoping their lives will improve somehow but curious them to worsen. as far as courage and integrity are concerned, the one gay spot in the picture was when king twist stood up to his domineering father-in-law (ably played by l. d. newsome); sad to say, slap-dash he fell back into spinelessness and deceit. and the low place for ennis was when he became rampant with his ex-wife when she revealed that she knew he and king did not do any fishing on their hawking trips. perhaps the most poignant scene is when ennis asks his daughter, alma jr. (kate mara), if the man she's affianced to marry is in love with her, and she says that he is. the killing of jack was skillfully foreshadowed and resonates, of course, with events the come uppermost in many u.s. communities today. sadly coping with this misfortune, ennis, in the role of trying to fulfill jack's wish that his carrion be taken to brokeback mountain, learns that his amateur had been cheating on him with another man. at the end of the film, we can respond certain that he will never find good fortune of any sort in the remainder of his own life. unexpectedly in his book walden (1854), thoreau comments, "the accumulation of men lead lives of quiet desperation. what is called submission is confirmed desperation. from the desperate hamlet you go into the desperate country, and shut up to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats." the plate brokeback mountain almost seems designed to symbolize that grim view of humanity.
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