Sarah_Jayne

I enjoyed it a great deal. I won't say it is the best film I have ever seen but I do think it is the best film (versus movie..I take them as different things) I have seen so far out of the films that are eligble to awards this year.

Heath Ledger was good but I don't know why Jake Gyllenhaal is getting ignored in the awards as I actually thought he was perhaps the better of the two. I went in a bit skeptical because I have never gotten why a performance is suddenly 'brave' just because a straight actor plays a gay character and why it isn't when a gay actor/actress plays a straight character but I gave it a chance and I am glad I did. It was a tale of great longing and it could have been between a man and a woman for the most part but it just happened that they were two men.

Obviously this movie isn't for everyone. Not so much because it is a 'gay' movie because it is more an art movie than a mainstream movie. I thought to myself that I watch a lot of world cinema that moves at the same pace and similar directions and I guess since it is an Ang Lee production that isn't too suprising. If you didn't like Lost In Translation, I am fairly sure you won't like Brokeback Mountain either. They aren't the same film but they are both fairly slow paced and primarily character and relationship studies.

As far as gay sex goes - there is more or less none of it shown. You see one scene at the start and it you don't actually even see anything there but instead it is mostly left up to your imagination. There are more boobs in this film than male nudity.

My only mild complaint about it is that they jump start the relationship a bit quickly. However,once it is started I buy into it.

Is it worthy os the Oscar? I still have to see Good Night and Good Luck and Walk The Line (both of which haven't been released yet here) so I will reserve judgement until then.