I haven't accompanied any of the MaleSoul images with explanatory text, but I want to for this one.
It's the shirts of the two men in Brokeback Mountain. (If you haven't seen the movie and plan to, there's a spoiler below).
During their brief summer on the mountain, where they become lovers --one sort of by design, the other apparently by complete surprise--, they also have a moment of play-wrestling which turns into real violence. Jack punches Innis, drawing blood and "ruining" Innis' new shirt. When they part, Innis finds the shirt gone and imagines that he has left it behind on the mountain.
Two decades later, after Jack's death, Innis finds the shirt, unwashed and bloodied, hung at the back of the closet in Jack's boyhood room, and around his shirt, Jack has hung one of his own.
Innis steals both shirts back and hangs them in his own closet in his trailer. The last scene of the movie shows him tearfully caressing them, with regret, a postcard of Brokeback Mountain pinned next to them.
It was Heath Ledger's own idea to switch the shirts for that scene, so that now Jack's shirt is enclosed inside Innis'.
I don't think any further explanation is necessary. MaleSoul 18.
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I haven't accompanied any of the MaleSoul images with explanatory text, but I want to for this one.
It's the shirts of the two men in Brokeback Mountain. (If you haven't seen the movie and plan to, there's a spoiler below).
During their brief summer on the mountain, where they become lovers --one sort of by design, the other apparently by complete surprise--, they also have a moment of play-wrestling which turns into real violence. Jack punches Innis, drawing blood and "ruining" Innis' new shirt. When they part, Innis finds the shirt gone and imagines that he has left it behind on the mountain.
Two decades later, after Jack's death, Innis finds the shirt, unwashed and bloodied, hung at the back of the closet in Jack's boyhood room, and around his shirt, Jack has hung one of his own.
Innis steals both shirts back and hangs them in his own closet in his trailer. The last scene of the movie shows him tearfully caressing them, with regret, a postcard of Brokeback Mountain pinned next to them.
It was Heath Ledger's own idea to switch the shirts for that scene, so that now Jack's shirt is enclosed inside Innis'.
I don't think any further explanation is necessary. MaleSoul 18.
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