Sunday, May 4, 2025

🎬 ~ Brokeback Mountain

rating: 7.5/10

disclaimer: i'm trying to write down all my reviews after a long time. my memory of things might be shoddy.

well shawty he def broke ur back on that mountain. God's Own Country feels like a spinoff of this movie. glad to finally have seen this milestone in queer cinema. were they both kinda horrible people? yes. was this lowkey tragic? yes. did i feel any empathy for them? no. y'all was weird southern horny men. also i did not know the meme of them kissing while michelle williams watches from the window was from this movie haha. that was how i originally came to know about Challengers. i ended up going to the public library the next day and reading the original short story coz they happened to have it. i liked the short story more than the film, but i appreciated how faithful the adaption was—like literally line to line similarities.

📖 ~ We Are Okay

rating: 3.75/5 life is so interesting. this was one of the first books i came by in 2020 which somehow stayed in my memory and by tbr. the o...