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Article: Love, vengeance and high living: 'Brokeback Mountain' deserves its accolades; 'Munich' is too heavy; Woody Allen's 'Match Point' doesn't quite work.(MOVIES - Brokeback Mountain; Munich; Match Point)(Movie Review)
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- January 20, 2006
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Those who have heard that Brokeback Mountain is a gay Western and go expecting (hoping?) to be shocked will be disappointed. Ang Lee's much heralded fill shows more good taste than many PG-13 comedies and less emotional exploitation than the romantic weepies so often aimed at women. My nonscientific survey suggests women will like it more than men, some of whom may get nervous at the movie's very idea.
The director begins with two cowboys waiting to be hired at a wall in Signal, Wyo., who are signed on to tend the sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Both Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) mumble and swallow half their words, perhaps excusably, ...