#cinnamontography...

In a lot of the scenes where they're apart the color of the movie is desaturated and dull but when Jack and Ennis are together at Brokeback the world is made of deep saturated greens and jewel blues, their entire world is brighter and more colorful when they're together.

And then they leave and go back to their lives and the women wear these pops of color because that's what they are, I don't think that jack and Ennis don't love their wives in the beginning, but they can never be happy with them. The world around them is still colorless and oppressive.

And after 4 years of no contact Jack comes back into Ennis' life wearing red and driving a red pickup truck, literally bringing the color back in to Ennis' life.

Ennis gets in the truck and we go from seeing Alma crying in a dark dull room to beautiful greens and blues of the mountain

The scene before the end when Ennis meets Jack's parents to get his ashes their entire house is white. The floor, the ceiling, the walls, even his parents are pale and washed out. There is no color left in the world without Jack Twist.

But he finds that denim jacket in the back of Jack's closet, it's a brilliant blue, the blood on the sleeves is still red, it still smells like him.

He brings it downstairs and it is so vibrant against the white and he leaves the scene with a piece of Jack with him.

The care and attention that went into portraying what compulsory heterosexuality felt like for these two men down to the color of the movie is so understated and under appreciated. It's such a beautiful movie.

can we also talk about this shot after they say goodbye for the first time, where Ennis looks trapped while coming to the realization that he *is* trapped by his compulsory heterosexuality immediately before it smash cuts to him saying "I do." at his wedding.