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thecutestcollie:
Jack or Ennis?

I would say I am more like Ennis. Jack is way more out there while Ennis more keeps to himself. Which pretty much describes me  :-X

So who are you more like?

loneleeb3:
Hello, Ennis Jr Here! ;D

ednbarby:
Jack is who I want to be, but Ennis is who I am.  There are traumas from my childhood this movie helped me see I've really never gotten past, as much as I always liked to tell myself I had.  Ennis speaks to me in a very profound way, as I'm sure we all can understand or at least sympathize with.  Nothing in any movie has ever made me weep like the sight of him backing away from that closet in the final scene.  It took me many viewings and a long time to come to understand why.

I am definitely a stander, not a fixer.  It has been the story of my life.  I'm working on changing it, but as they say, old habits die hard.

ifyoucantfixit:


       Im definately a stander, on so many levels,,,So I am for sure an Ennis..Some of it has been forced on me and some of it has been my own choosing.  Either way the choices in life we make, specially early on, make the direction we tend to go...It is near impossible to make some changes, once you embark on that path..

malina:
This has always been one of the most confusing questions.

I'm a Jack with an Ennis core, I think.

You know what I think is funny? How so many of us identify with Ennis, even when (I suspect) those who know us would disagree. I used to be deeply convinced I was going to end up like Ennis in the pie-eating scene... alone and sort of paralyzed, cut off even from himself. I confessed that to a friend of mine, who had seen the movie but is not a Brokie... and she said, 'What the f* are you talking about? You're not like Ennis at ALL!'

And, okay, I'm not... I talk, for one thing. And I'm optimistic, and I ... relate to my physical environment, I mean, I always thought Jack took pleasure in his shirts and trucks and stuff, and I'm like that too.... and I'm cheerful, mostly, and I'll laugh at anything... and I fix things rather than stand them... so....

so why did I spend so much of last year feeling exactly, but exactly, like Ennis?  :(

Is it because Ennis is 'everyman', and to some degree we are all Enni, and that's why we're here in the first place? hmmm....

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