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