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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Movie Review by Justin 
March 25th, 2006
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This one's every bit as good as the hype. It's a tragic, acutely sensitive meditation on the force and complexities of love, and the struggle to reckon with our deepest and most inexplicable yearnings, provocative as they often are. Ang Lee's graceful direction sidesteps the cliches so common to tales of forbidden love and loss. There's a "slice of life" quality to the picture that underlines the lingering romanticism, that keeps it tough and brooding. In fact, where the makers might have opted with a facile attempt to suggest the liberation enjoyed by romantic intimacy, instead they hold the strength of this film in the tightly wound emotional tension and restraint. Lee and McMurtry (with the help of noteworthy turns from the leads) create complex, sympathetic characters, vulnerable men fighting against a harsh cultural decree for machoism. The movie is knowing, stirring at soul-level, and greatly moving. It never takes a wrong step, never rings false -- its maturity and wisdom do well to take the breath away. The very fact that the film acquits its potential liberal agenda in favor of subtle, slight-of-hand storytelling makes it just about the year's best picture.
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