Saw Brokeback Mtn. last nite -- a short review

[SushiFan]

Personally we thought it was very well done and made some good points. It's well worth EVERYONE seeing not only for the thinking you'll do afterward but also for just a good story line plus a very enjoyable / entertaining two hours spent. Many laughs, many emotional reactions to the plot.

The editing seemed kinda choppy, but looking back it seemed a complement to the rest of the film's roughness and the characters' untender behavior with each other. Ultimately, you forget in the very beginning moments that these are two men. Straight arrow guys, like rough trade maybe. But it melts into a simple tale of 2 people deeply in love where sex roles are overpowered by the love that's shared. American society always requires the masculine role play of real men to always remain unflinchingly straight, real male. In this film, all those strictures becomes insignificant, they don't disappear, but they end up as meaningless, worthless, UNRESTRAINING constraints upon two lonely people who have found their soulmates in each other. If someone here likes GREAT movies, this is a good one to see. Would make a terrific Xmas present to take a friend or lover of ANY sex to see this. If I were an actual newsp. reviewer, I'd give it five outta five.

Below is a link to an interview with the screenwriters, if anyone's interested:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/en...%22Brokeback%22

[Not Me]

1. Thanks..

It doesn't get to my area until 1/8, and unfortunately I don't have travel plans to go anywhere it may be playing before that.
It's gong to ne an interesting Oscar season!

[SushiFan]

2. Oh wow! U will love it. Really makes U cry and think!!! :) nt

[AnnInLa]

3. thanks....am really looking forward to seeing it

If we're giving movie reviews, I just saw Syriana.....and, while I understood the broad outline of the plot, there were too many totally incomprehensible events, too much jumping around, not enough preparation for the usually-nonpolitically oriented people of the audience. Actors all did wonderfully, but I was hoping for a plot which would make things go "ka-ching" for everyone in the audience. Instead, after we left the movie, the 4 of us, had to ask each other questions, like what did so-and-so have to do with everything, or who did so-and-so work for? When I saw F9/11, it was like the scales fell from my eyes, and everything became clear. With Syriana, everything became even more muddled. I think there was a missed opportunity here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I dunno.. maybe people asking each other questions about the movie will

open a dialogue about real life??

Also, I tend to think longer about movies I don't get because I want them to make sense. So it will at least keep people pizzling over it.

[AnnInLa]

5. I get your point, of course, but

I think that the average Joe SixPack will get too bogged down in the confusing details that were supposed to support the thesis, and miss the thesis all together. I have no confidence in the citizenry coming out of that movie and doing the deep-thinking-questioning that is necessary to reach an "ah ha!"

[SushiFan]

7. IF any joe 6pks are luckky enough to see this movie,

believe me, director Ang Lee DOES sow some seeds here. And maybe if enough seeds get planted, maybe things just MIGHT someday change! :)

[SushiFan]

6. Oh u WILL get this film! + you'll be glad u did! nt

[applegrove]

8. Makes me cringe. Not the love story - but the phony lives those two

men lead and deal that out to their respective families. I hate stories like that. I'll have to avoid the film for that reason.

Just so sad.

[pitohui]

10. well i like sad stories & i liked this one, look forward to the film

maybe i'm sick but one of my favorite films from back in the day was midnight cowboy & tell me those two guys weren't leading phony lives

i think the great mass of people lead lives of quiet desperation, just like the man said

it doesn't have to be abt gay or straight or even abt sex, but there is a lot of quiet secret desperation out there

good to see what you can't talk abt acknowledged in film once in awhile

besides jake gyllenhaal naked, what more do i need to know? :-)

[JudyM]

9. I saw it last week. Liked it overall but wasn't wild about the theme of

one guy seducing the other and making him and ultimately his wife miserable. I was hoping for a more positive love message, reinforcing the humanity of gay love. Instead, this element of the film almost seemed to reinforce what the fundies warn people about.