I feel like the love between Jack and Lureen was not genuine, I don't know how to explain it. The love between Ennis and Alma felt real, you felt Alma's pain when she saw Ennis and Jack kiss, but you also understood why Ennis did it and cheated on her; It was a dilemma, it wasn't either of them's fault, just the homophobia of society at the time.

It's not that Jake Gyllenhaal's or Anne Hathaway's performance is bad since in the book it doesn't feel like the great romantic story either, although it wasn't true love because Jack didn't really love her, Ennis stopped loving Alma but the story was still painful.

Ennis and Alma probably knew each other since they were teenagers, since at the beginning of the movie and the book, Ennis was 19 years old and was talking to Jack about how he was going to marry Alma after that, so it is obvious that Alma's pain was so huge. The scenes of them happy are weird to see, they look so good together but suddenly you remember that Ennis doesn't love her as much as he loves Jack.

I talked too much and it's actually because Ennis and Alma's relationship has more development and prominence than Laureen and Jack's, but anyway, what do you think?