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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Storyline
Brokeback Mountain is an Ang Lee film about two modern day cowboys who meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63. The two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a life long relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live. |
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The Director
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), and Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
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User Reviews
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Reviews of the Past: Brokeback Mountain Haunts
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From December 31, 2007:
You are probably aghast, thinking, "What, you haven't seen this movie until now??" Well, no. Truth be told, when this movie was out, and the buzz and controversy surrounded it, I knew the experience of watching it would be cheapened if not altogether ruined. This was why I was so happy to have seen Crash when I did, at least three or four months before it unexpectedly snatched Best Picture honors from this film, the heavy favorite at the time. I figured I'd see this one when I saw it. No rush. Then, my happy-to-lend friend had it amongst her traveling collection, and the rest is history.
The story is relatively simple. Emotionally scarred and introverted Innis DelMar (Heath Ledger) and gregarious Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are cowboys hired as sheep herders by seedy boss Gary (Randy Quaid). They are expected to take the sheep up into the mountains, specifically Brokeback Mountain, for grazing. While there, they form a friendship and then an emotional bond - and then a physical bond (though seeds are planted that Jack may have fancied this from the get-go). The job comes to an end, and the pair forage ahead with separate lives. Innis marries Alma (Michelle Williams), stays a rancher, and becomes a father of two girls. Jack marries Lorraine (Anne Hathaway), works for her father, and becomes a father of one son. Except, Jack takes fishing trips from Texas to Colorado for the purpose of carrying on his affair with Innis, and it goes like this for 20 years, as the pair repeatedly visit Brokeback while trying to live lives of lies.
I know this film has been much overhyped. Some people think it's overrated. Some people think it's...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 31st of January 2010
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It's a sad statement about our society that this film is "controversial". There's nothing at all controversial about it; it's a completely straight-forward (no pun intended) romance story. If I have to criticize the film for anything, it's that it's rather longer than it needed to be. The acting is good, and the cinematography and the scenery itself are beautiful. It's not quite an extraordinary film, but it's certainly more than just a "gay cowboys" film. Jeez.