Brokeback Mountain
Genuinely? Genuinely? Genuinely? Perfect. Oh my fucking god. It's so good. The scenes are iconic, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal had iconic performances, they're so good. I love the aesthetics of this film, this bleak american realism and I'm a sucker for films set apart of the American West Region, all that landscape, it's all beautiful and tragic. Ennis hugging the shirt at the end...Lureen basically implying that Brokeback was some sort of make-believe fantasy for Jack...Jesus Christ. Their shirts at the end...Like they're actually just going to be together forever that symbolism means everything to me. OH MY GOD. What is most tragic of all is that all I can think about are all the older queer people who had to have gone through similar experiences that changed their lives and that never had the chance to live it out and kept it hidden because of the cruel and prejudice reality of the earlier decades. Tragic. I didn't cry but I thought this film was fantastic, shame it took me this long to watch.