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hildigunnurLast night I saw a film I've been waiting for ever since I heard about it being made. The fact it was an Ang Lee film was enough for me. Yes, I'm talking about Brokeback Mountain.
There's an element you can find in a lot of Hollywood and Hollywood-produced films and that's a certain play on the audience emotions. That has of course a lot to do with marketing. If it's going to be a drama mainly made for women audience, you'll need those Kleenex moments. If it's going to be a war film that's going to be commercial successful, harrowing scenes of the soldiers' strife and than triumph are what might make the film.
I'm not cynical enough not to fall for a lot of those emotional wrangling and can sob my heart out over films such as Forrest Gump.
Rarely you get a film which does show us so many of the deeper emotions a human being can feel and experience but doesn't at any point, wallow in it even though the subject matter goes so far as to excuse that kind of handling.
Brokeback Mountain tells a story of so many powerful human emotions and it does it so understated. Yet it doesn't become strained or unclear. You know exactly how Jack is feeling where we see him standing in that single shot of that Mexican street. We literally can see the thousand and one emotion that Alma feels after witnessing her husband kissing another man, yet it's portrayed oh so subtly.
The acting was superb. It's so good that I don't even feel like rooting for the actors to receive acting trophies. Their performances are just pieces of art that I feel will stand as such as long as mankind will watch films. Just as the Mona Lisa has been a work of art for five hundred years and will continue to be so as long as human kind retains the ability to appreciate it.
And then there's the craftsman being the film, Ang Lee whom I consider a pure genius. That man has such a deep understanding of human emotions and how to portray them on film without ever overstating a thing (here it's best to admit I've never seen Hulk and I don't intend to).
I don't what more I can say without repeating myself. In short, Brokeback Mountain touched me like few other films have ever done and I feel privileged to be able to experience the work of people who are so talented and have such sensibility for human emotion.
There's an element you can find in a lot of Hollywood and Hollywood-produced films and that's a certain play on the audience emotions. That has of course a lot to do with marketing. If it's going to be a drama mainly made for women audience, you'll need those Kleenex moments. If it's going to be a war film that's going to be commercial successful, harrowing scenes of the soldiers' strife and than triumph are what might make the film.
I'm not cynical enough not to fall for a lot of those emotional wrangling and can sob my heart out over films such as Forrest Gump.
Rarely you get a film which does show us so many of the deeper emotions a human being can feel and experience but doesn't at any point, wallow in it even though the subject matter goes so far as to excuse that kind of handling.
Brokeback Mountain tells a story of so many powerful human emotions and it does it so understated. Yet it doesn't become strained or unclear. You know exactly how Jack is feeling where we see him standing in that single shot of that Mexican street. We literally can see the thousand and one emotion that Alma feels after witnessing her husband kissing another man, yet it's portrayed oh so subtly.
The acting was superb. It's so good that I don't even feel like rooting for the actors to receive acting trophies. Their performances are just pieces of art that I feel will stand as such as long as mankind will watch films. Just as the Mona Lisa has been a work of art for five hundred years and will continue to be so as long as human kind retains the ability to appreciate it.
And then there's the craftsman being the film, Ang Lee whom I consider a pure genius. That man has such a deep understanding of human emotions and how to portray them on film without ever overstating a thing (here it's best to admit I've never seen Hulk and I don't intend to).
I don't what more I can say without repeating myself. In short, Brokeback Mountain touched me like few other films have ever done and I feel privileged to be able to experience the work of people who are so talented and have such sensibility for human emotion.
