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Brokeback Mountain gets erotic juice from some sexy horseplay, to be sure, but it’s also charged up by Lee’s interest in the faces of his actors — Ennis’s explosiveness that night in the
tent is more po
tent for the desperate slow burn Ledger does throughout the picture, and if Gyllenhaal’s guilelessness feels a little like
affectation, it turns out to be part of Jack’s charm. In more ways than one, he’s a contemporary cowboy trapped in old-fashioned environs, and Lee’s camera studies the winsome openness that Ennis is drawn to precisely because it’s the opposite of everything he is."