Brokeback Mountain: A Work of Art

If you have the patience to sit through a slow-moving romance then  you'll greatly appreciate the light at the end of Brokeback Mountain. 

It is truly a work of art that's more than just a movie. The movie takes place in 1963 in Wyoming.  Ennis Del Mar, who is played by Heath Ledger and Jack Twist, who is played by Jake Gyllenhaal, both show up as moneyless as can be on a ranch looking for some work.  

They are assigned a job to herd sheep together on Brokeback Mountain. They begin their journey with the sheep and after a couple of weeks of seeing no one but each other, they are drawn to one another and eventually begin sharing a tent. 

During this time and setting, gay relationships were hardly spoken of much less accepted.  If they wanted to keep their jobs, they had to keep their relationship a secret. 

Over the next 20 years, Ennis and Jake both marry beautiful women and have children.  Neither men are very happy and they keep finding theirselves being drawn back to the other. But can they ever find the happiness they shared together on Brokeback Mountain in the real world?