watched brokeback mountain today (dont ask me how) and man it was heart-renching. sure, love between two cattle-ranchin' rodeo-ridin' cowboys goes against the norm and is not your everyday visualisation of the words true-love, but that's what makes it so powerful.

for me, the fact that they were two cowboys shifted some of the attention from gender to the affects of love and what love can do to two people who feel so much for each other. it was just so beautiful to watch them yearn for each as they lived their 'ordinary' lives with their wives.

this is not, as many have vulgarly named it, a gay movie, but a movie of what love really is.