Brokeback Mountain

Probably my favorite movie of all time. It's such a special and tragic story, gets me every time I watch it.

Everytime i watch this movie, i feel like i can die happy.

First time I watched this film I was a kid, I really had no idea of what I was watching, but I knew it felt earth-shattering. Second time I watched it, I knew it was a love story, I knew they couldn't be together because they were gay, that was about all that I could understand, no nuances, but still... earth-shattering. Have watched it maybe 12 times in total. Every single time, earth-shattering. Tonight was my most recent rewatch, the first one in a couple of years. The first one after studying film in university. The first one after watching so. many. different. kinds. of. movies. trying to catch up on all the ones I missed before I found the love I have for this art form. Little did I know... no matter what film I watch, the one I watched when I was way too young to understand half of what it really meant, what it really represented - or the reasons as to why it's one of the most beautiful things I have ever had the privilege to watch -, would always be the one every other movie would have to live up to. My experience watching it this time around was familiar, as it always is. Like always, I could recite every big scene, I knew most sequences by heart, but Ennis and Jack feel more real than ever to me, now. I feel like for the very first time I really understood the full scope of their emotions, and bonded with them more than I had ever before. I was also blown away by the technical aspects of it too, Ang Lee's incredible talent. I understood it was a beautiful movie before, but now I can see just how beautiful it is. And is there even a way of putting Jake and Heath's performance into words? To me there isn't. All they had was Brokeback Mountain, and I will always have Brokeback Mountain too.

100000000000000000000000/10

I wish I know how to quit you :'(

So fucking wonderful. I miss Heath :(

The quietness of this film seeps through you. At first it makes Ennis and Jack's relationship all the more genuine and moving, the way they can sit in silence up in the mountains and their actions of love are more electrifying than any lengthy, love-declaration filled dialogue could ever be. By the end, though, that quietness has transformed into soul-crushing loneliness, that which comes from living an entire life denied of the freedom to love the only person who completes you.

Brokeback is and will always be groundbreaking and, to this day, after decades of good LGBT+ cinema (boosted by this movie itself), it is still one of the very best, if not the best well-rounded characterisation of human sentiment in general, and queer experience in particular, to be seen on screen.

We turn now from depression and grief to unattainable desire. Lovers kept apart by circumstance is a tale as old as time, but Ang Lee manages to plumb new depths in his adaptation of the Annie Proulx short story. In many ways it’s thanks to the bravura performance of Heath Ledger as Ennis. The tension between the traditional conception of masculinity required of a cowboy (or of any man in that place and time) and the love he feels for Jack is as heartbreakingly realized as any on-screen relationship I can think of. I particularly like his scenes with (then-wife) Michelle Williams as he struggles to pass as someone he’s not. To me this is the height of tragedy and it hits me deep. Also, the film is absolutely gorgeous, particularly the early scenes set on the mountains in Wyoming and Gustavo Santaolalla’s score remains one of my all-time favorites.

A film that I say without a doubt that is among my favorites. So beautiful - and tragically, unfortunately - the love story of Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. Impossible not to end the film in tears.

THIS GODDAMN BITCH OF AN UNSATISFACTORY SITUATION!!