A flick that melts my heart...

Well, it happened on a pathetic saturday night where no one wanna watched the show with me... And yet, I insisted of having it... So I moved my lazy ass off the bed, and took a bus to Great World City for that movie, alone.

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Though it might be a gay show, the message conveyed here was obviously clear that love is not something that one can control. Be it between a man to a woman, a woman to a woman, or man to a man...

In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) show up penniless at a Wyoming ranch to look for work. The strangers are quickly assigned to herd sheep together on Brokeback Mountain. Be it the pristine setting in which they live, sleep and work together or the appearance that they're practically the last two people left on earth, something draws them together, and before long they share a tent and a raw liaison. In order to keep their jobs, they know they must keep this secret affair just that, and must decide on a larger scale whether or not to embrace their emerging love. Over the next 20 years, the two men—almost as if by familial rite of passage—marry and become fathers, but find themselves drawn back together.

Perhaps the director, Ang Lee, didn't deliberately tried to convey any message in the show, the slow moving love affair between the cowboys lacked of the desperation you see in gays, but yet, a stronger and motivating power about their love is being presented...

In the story, Jack and Ennis kept emphazing that they are not homosexuals, neither did they embrace their love for one another. However, after their first seperation at the foot of Brokeback Mountain, Ennis vommited immediately and cried, thinking that it was the rejection of his own sexuality preferances, only to discover that it was dued to the fact that, he's missing Jack so much.

4 Years later, they met down the road, only to have sex and sex again in a motel, as their desire for one another that become lust over the years... From that year onwards, they started to have frequent meet up sessions with one another, even thou both were tied down with wives and family. The movie didn't missed out the misery and agony u see in the actresses. Their husbands don't dare to love, and therefore, lived inside their own protected place, using them as a form of disguise. Through the sensitvity of women, do u think that they really dunno the forbidden secret of their husbands... Or do they choose not to know? Both Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway used their own methods to face the reality. With the former filing a divore, and the latter drunk herself into career, transforming herself from a sweetie pie into a businesswoman.

The story didn't left out a tragic twist to end up the story beautifully. Jack was murdered while he was on his way to find Ennis at Mexico. When Ennis visited Jack's mother at her hometown near Brokeback Mountain, she didn't said much but managed to convey the message, "So, here's Ennis, my son's real love." through her acting. The movie earned my tears through the last part whereby Ennis visited Jack's room that have been left untouched twenty years ago, only to see his own shirt and Jack's, stained with blood, hung at the corner of the cupboard... A pair of shirts that was left behind twenty years ago when they have their first fight of love... A love that have been so strong that lasts forever...

The show left me a question that yet to be answered... Do they love one another, that's why they are gay? Or because they are gay, that's why they love one another? Perhaps love is not within man to woman, woman back to man, but between any beings that have strong affection for one another...

Rating: 9.5/10 - Highly recommended...

Shawn Tay - Watched I'm Not Stupid 2 with the burgies on Sunday. It was good too... I laughed like a cock ah! Haha!