by shinizzle on 1/15/2006
favorite track: 17
 
Just like the beautiful, heartbreakingly stunning Brokeback Mountain movie, the soundtrack strikes the same. It melodically reflects the beautifully romantic yet intense mood of the movie. It completes the movie, evoking the beautiful spirit of the movie - something that rarely happens in movie soundtrack nowadays.

The most noted song probably crowned by The Wings, a score written by Gustavo Santaolalla (which notably appear on the movie trailer). This beautiful piece of acoustic guitar instrumental, alone, relives the passion of intense, forbidden love between the two main characters in the movie. And at the same time, never falter to wrench one's heart with the pain of longing and loss - the subject that heavily painted the movie. It almost makes you feel the bliss of being in great love, yet the pain of hiding it from the world. The elements stay in the other beautifully inspiring tracks written by Santaolalla, even though the pieces melodically sound awfully similar to each other but somehow surprisingly hold their own strengths, which make those worthy to the soundtrack and the movie.

The tender ballad of "A Love That Never Grows Old" is simply stunning that makes me consider it for Oscar. Willie Nelson's version of "He Was A Friend Of Mine" is done with classical grace of elegance with a hint of sadness and secrecy - one's that defined the secret friendship that was formed in the movie. And the same goes for "I Don't Wanna Say Goobye." "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" is delivered with hints of playful seduction but somehow managed to devoid from any sort of corniness. Rufus Wainwright contributes two songs - "King of The Road" and "The Maker Makes" that sound almost leisurely effortless but unusually still beautiful.

A huge collection of country fervor obviously emphasizes the mood and background of the movie. This clearly proved by tracks like "I Will Never Let You Go," "It's So Easy" and "An Angel Went Up In Flames," a western instrumental piece that downright fun and surprisingly leave me - a rock fan enjoying the 2 minutes 35 seconds song. It proves that in order to enjoy this soundtrack, you don't have to become country music lover. Because those songs are not about which genre they fit, but more how they suit the mood of this amazing movie, which I think is deeply more affected if you watch the movie first.

And listening to this soundtrack never falter to help me to remember why the movie is so heartbreakingly amazing...