Brokeback Mountain

A lot has already been written and said about Brokeback Mountain but after viewing it for the second time this week I decided to post my review.
We know the story - although it had been bubbed the `gay cowboy movie' - but it centres around Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), two fairly typical 1960s Amercian lads (on the surface) who seek summer work herding sheep.
What unfolds when they are on Brokeback Mountain is first a friendship then an unlikely relationship, something that takes them both by surprise. The story follows their lives over the next 20 years.
It's easy to see this was based on a short story, there's four minutes before any dialogue.
I was just as moved the second time around as when I saw it at the movies. Nothing is lost on the small screen. The performances all round were excellent, though I though Anne Hathaway's character was a shade two-dimensional. I suppose when your husband keeps ducking off on `fishing trips' all the time it's understandable that some distance can come between you.
OK, the gay thing. If you can't see past it and look at the story being told I'd say don't bother seeing it, you won't like it anyway. That's just common sense. There is a sex scene and, as uncomfortable as it is and a couple of other scenes are, it is absolutely necessary to the story.
It's clear that both Jack and Ennis want different things from their relationship, which was clearly doomed from the start, and they have several clashes, all of which are brilliantly played out.
Heath Ledger is just amazing. Ennis is so tortured emotionally and there's a scene early on when he breaks down after he and Jack go their separate ways. His line `if you can't fix it you've got to stand it' sums Ennis up so well.
I could go on and on. This is a very emotional movie if you get drawn into it, I certainly did. And the final scene is a heart-breaker and had me well and truly welling up.