Brokeback Mountain
Feb. 5th, 2006 07:10 pmOmaha and I managed to find friends who'd take the girls for the evening, so each child got to have a movie night with her best friends while Omaha and I went out to watch a movie of our own. We were gonna watch the Science Fiction Museum / Seattle International Film Festival's "Science Fiction Shorts Festival" going on at the Cinerama, but they sold out. So we went to see Brokeback Mountain instead.
Oh, my. Yes, it's a "Gay Cowboy" movie. But it's a very, very good film. I was especially impressed with the sets and costuming; it must have been hard to find that many 1973 Ford F160's, and I remember my family owning one of those OmniVox TV sets! I cried when it ended, and so did Omaha, and I'd read the story so I knew how it ended. Ang Lee did a fabulous job of showing how keeping silent creates chasms between people who say they love one another, and showed the isolation of the two main characters as they tried to make their way through the world. Heath Ledger gives an especially excellent and restrained performance as a man trying so hard to do what is right in a world that loathes what he is. Great flick.
( Spoilers: don't read if you haven't seen it. )
We went to the hot tub place and then ate Indian food, but we were so tired after that we just went home to bed. Whatever happened to the party animals we used to be?
Oh, my. Yes, it's a "Gay Cowboy" movie. But it's a very, very good film. I was especially impressed with the sets and costuming; it must have been hard to find that many 1973 Ford F160's, and I remember my family owning one of those OmniVox TV sets! I cried when it ended, and so did Omaha, and I'd read the story so I knew how it ended. Ang Lee did a fabulous job of showing how keeping silent creates chasms between people who say they love one another, and showed the isolation of the two main characters as they tried to make their way through the world. Heath Ledger gives an especially excellent and restrained performance as a man trying so hard to do what is right in a world that loathes what he is. Great flick.
( Spoilers: don't read if you haven't seen it. )
We went to the hot tub place and then ate Indian food, but we were so tired after that we just went home to bed. Whatever happened to the party animals we used to be?
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