Writer: Screenplay: Danny McMurtry, Dina Ossana Short Story: Annie Proulx
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Genre: Drama, Romance
Because this is no doubt a good story. It establish a movie-language speaking to us watching, and then use it to make us think, feel and reconsider instead of just experiencing a movie. There's always been prejudice and hate in this world, and it's never easy to make good intelligent movies about these subjects, whether it's homosexuality still, interracial couples earlier, African Americans, society's class differences in former centuries and so on and so forth. There's always been shame and prejudice in society. Shame and prejudice stopping people from living openly as they would want to in a perfect world. It's never easy to make movies about these while it's still a problem.
And it's still a subject for every homosexual out there, some places worse than others, but it's still very much news. That's probably also one of the reasons this movie has been talked a lot about, why Ledger, Gyllenhaal and Lee was attracted to it in the first place and why some still deny its strength. The latter mainly not because they don't like the story, the camerawork, acting, score or anything else about the movie, but because it pains them to watch two guys portrayed like this.
I'm not saying everybody who doesn't like this movie is homophobic. I'm just saying most of them are, because this is a very good movie whether or not you're able to enjoy it. I think it might even grow with time and repeated viewing, but for now I'll leave it with an eight.
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