Mini-Review: It's easy to compare this to Brokeback but for me it's more brutal and Brandon is a such a misguided and lost soul that you want to reach out. Swank plays this amazingly well and I find that her performance pulls you around emotionally while never pushing you away totally. The metaphorical capacity of this story speaks to all of that have ever withheld something of ourselves from others but in this case there not a lesson to be learned as such. I enjoyed this more than the score is telling.