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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Movie Review by Zara 
December 14th, 2008
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I guess I didn't review this movie earlier because I felt it had enough reviews to sustain it. But looking over some of the reviews here, I have to point out that I'm one of the few people who wasn't so overly impressed with the movie like everyone else was.
First of all, it's a sappy romance. I didn't like THE NOTEBOOK for those reasons and just because the movie has two males as the leads in the romance doesn't change the fact that it's a weepy unrequited love story that just doesn't appeal to me in the basic sense. I don't give it higher marks for being "brave" or testing the boundaries of what can be done with film.
What I will give the movie credit for is the gorgeous cinematography that Ang Lee brings to every picture that he makes. Between the moments when the men are reunited, most of the stuff that goes on is the boring drivel of day to day life that regular people have. I don't find that compelling, just sad and tiresome. But at least the picture looks sharp and crisp in its presentation and that's saying something.
And I don't have a completely ice cold heart. I found the last scene where Ledger finds out that the shirt he thought was always missing was really with the shirt that Gyllenhaal had worn during the same time to be a touching moment. It's just too bad that those touching moments are too few and far between. Their romance in the movie focused mainly on the fact that it was supposed to be illicit because they were gay. So what? Gay people have romances all the time. Why make that the backbone of whether or not a movie is quality? The hard fact of the matter is that the movie put too much focus on that dirty sex those two men were having and didn't focus on the love that they shared, aside from the little moments like the shirt scene. And that you have to wait all the way up until the end of the movie to really feel the love and not just the lust and illicit yearning between the two is really rather sad.
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