Film #3: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)

So today's film is Brokeback Mountain, I decided to review this film as I was reading my media text book and it referred to Queer theory and linked it to this film. I had always known the basic narrative for the film but decided to then actually watch it. 
The film was surprisingly good, the story was easy to follow and was extremely well shot. As well as brilliant and brave performances from  Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal who executed the frustration of the emotion of the men loving one another so well. 
The film is based around two men Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal) travelling together to Brokeback Mountain on a job together in the 1960's. The film follows them becoming friends and living together in the woods but also then as their friendship turns into something more how they fight one another from the feelings that they have. 
After they finish the job they go their seperate ways and don't communicate with each other for four years, both of them finding a wife and starting families of their own. However they eventually find one another again and start to make trips to Brokeback Mountain numerous times each year in order to spend some time together. 
As the years go by the struggles of life start to catch up with them and experience more fights between them and more problems at home when away from each other. Because deep down they both want to go back to their first trip to the mountains and not have to experience the troubles of real life. 
I thought this film is beautiful for expressing the emotions behind gay love in the 60's; my major criticism is I found the ending to be flat compared to the rest of the film and expected a more dramatic and emotional response from Ledger's character.