In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.
A truly beautiful and powerful love story. "That gay cowboy movie" as it has, and probably will be known as forever, was the best picture of 2005 IMO and was robbed at the Oscars (BIG surprise there). Beautiful scenery and wonderful performances turned in by Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, and Anne Hathaway. Enjoyable cameo's also from Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, and Kate Mara. Ang Lee truly deserved his Best Director Oscar if you ask me because he didn't use a lot of camera tricks. I feel he didn't try to tell the story through his directing, but rather trusted in the story and screenplay enough to not interfere with his perspective. I'm not trying to sound rude here but to me it just seems Ang shot the film as it was originally wrote and didn't try to make it "Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain."
