Hush!: Brokeback Mountain Review

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Brokeback Mountain Review

I just watched Lee Ang's Brokeback Mountain at Lido with Lesley, Weilun, Yeling and Xin. This is my first R21 movie, excluding some R21 DVDs watched at home and also the first time we actually get together to watch a movie together! We have been classmates for almost 2 years and yet we have not sat down for a movie before until now. (DVDs shown on Understanding Chinese Cinemas Modules not counted. Haha!)

It's a long 2 hours 15 minutes show. I do not watch it with high expectation of being entertained since it was an arthouse film afterall. After the movie, you will realise Brokeback Mountain is NOT a gay movie but a bisexual movie. It's a very sad show, however not to the extend that tears will roll. Lovers did not end up together. One was passionately waiting for the day to be with his "lover" and pursuing his dreams of sharing a ranch with his lover while the other wanted to bury their past at Brokeback Mountain behind him.

One of the greatest tragedy is in fact the betrayal that the wife got from the husband. The shocking truth hit Elma (Michelle Willams) when she saw her husband, Ernis (Heath Ledger) kissing with Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal). Eventually, she grew emotionally detached from Ernis after many lies from Ernis who claimed to go "fishing" with Jack. My heart went to Elma during her outburst to Ernis. ....Went "fishing" but never bring a single fish home.... the price tag still sticking on the fishing box and looked just as new.... and the note written by Elma to remind him to bring some fishes home was still hanging on the fishing rod.... untouched....

No wives can accept their husbands' infidelities, whatsmore is a man who steal the husband's heart. sigh.

On the whole, Brokeback Mountain is worth watching but learn to appreciate it from a very "arty-farty" perspective though some of the sex scenes might be pretty disturbing. (It's quite dark... cant see much either. Hehe...) Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are really professional and fantastic actors. Michelle Williams as Ernis's wife brought out her emotions really well and Anna Hathaway's character as Jack's wife was a major breakthrough from her teeny boppers films (Princess Diaries). So people, got the chance and has reached the legal age of 21, go watch it. Those still under 21... stayed at home watch DVD lah or get your friends to "smuggle" you into the theatre. haha!

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