Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.
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Honey, I am looking at this poster and WEEPING. Two men in cowboy hats — one in white, one in black — standing shoulder to shoulder, both looking downward with this unbearable heaviness, the Rocky Mountains reflected in a lake behind them. The intimacy! The TENSION! The way they're almost touching but not quite — that negative space between them IS the entire film. Heath Ledger with that jaw, Jake Gyllenhaal with those eyes, both in worn denim work jackets like they're trying to look rough and rugged while their hearts are absolutely shattering. This film came out in 2005 and straight America lost its MIND. Good. It deserved to.