I finally saw it.

[oloriel]

So, back from Brokeback Mountain. I'm probably the last person on this planet to have seen it...

I'm always so terribly grateful when a movie everybody hypes about is actually as good as everyone says. Otherwise, I'll go in with sky-high expectations and am terribly disappointed. Not this time, though; they were fulfilled.

The movie was good. Beautiful. Touchingly amusing in the beginning, heart-wrenching later, sad and frustrating and yet, in the end, strangely satisfying in that it felt like yes, that was the story. I wished for an alternate ending, of course. A hundred different endings, all happy ones, or, at least, differently sad ones. As it was, it was bitter-sweet. But it worked, and it felt true. Not right, but true.

Bed, now.

Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't read the short story, so I have no idea how the movie compares to that. I've heard it's better than the story, though (for once!). Although, not knowing what you didn't like about the story, that may not mean much, of course...