"Peering down through the years at the power of that Brokeback Mountain summer on the lives of Ennis and Jack, Lee delivers a virtually forensic vision of desire, denial and emotional cost. The depth of Ennis and Jack's attachment to one another gives their lives meaning and drains all other meaning out of them, rendering the men both enriched and destitute emotionally. If
Brokeback Mountain never shies away from the sexual truth of that attachment, it doesn't settle for the merely explicit either.
It's a great love story, pure and simple. And simultaneously the story of a great love that's broken and warped in the torture chamber of a
society's intolerance and
threats, an individual's fear and repression."