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Two things I noticed in the Dozy Embrace

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mvansand76:
Okay, so I watched the Dozy Embrace five times just now.

1. I am absolutely enthralled by the way Ennis looks at Jack and that little head tilt of his just before he holds him from behind. I keep rewinding it to see that look again, it's so full of care and love, there is no way to describe it. I wanna make a screenshot of it, but I don't know how to do it.

And God, this might have become my most favorite scene in the whole movie, because what I noticed this time is how relaxed Ennis's voice is, so soft and sweet and that combined with the look of utter peace on his face... It's heartwrenching.

2. On a more practical note: I noticed that when Ennis rides off after the embrace he doesn't have his pup tent with him.  ???

Cameron:
I am so glad you posted this, Mel, because I so agree with you about the Dozy Embrace.  It is my favorite seen too, I have not noticed the head tilt, I will have to look for it again, but I just love Ennis in this scene.  You are so right, the softness of his voice and the expression on his face is just heartwrenching.  I still can't understand why as beautiful and loving as the scene is why it is so unbearably, heartbreakingly sad.

Another thing that i have noticed is how different Ennis is here then every other scene in the movie.  I have been meaning to write about this for a while.  In the DE, Ennis is confident and strong and sure of himself, not nervous and scared like he is all the rest of the time in the film.

He is not afraid to express his feelings for Jack, and he is totally unafraid to show that soft, loving side of him with the humming and the swaying.  I am not sure why he is like this, did he lose his inhibitions by the end of the summer on Brokeback and was able to physically express how he felt, or was that confident Ennis just how Jack remembered him at that moment and how he wanted to remember him?

Either way, everytime that I think I am am starting to get over it, just thinking about the DE causes all the feelings to come rushing back to me.

I have also noticed that there is no bedroll on the horse, and I have also wondered about that.  Did they just forget when they were filming the DE, or does it mean something?  I haven't really decided either.

LauraGigs:
No bedroll/tent with him? The assumption is that the herder's camp was already set up there before Ennis came down for dinner and some dozy embracing.
 :)

One of the more profound things about the DE (and Ennis' lack of inhibition you mentioned), is that the scenes where Jack takes the tent down, they fight and silently part ways may have been the very next day.

What really slays me is how the horses (as symbols of free-spiritedness) roam free in the DE scene. Cutting straight to Jack watching Ennis drive off — with the horses all penned up in the back of his truck.
:-\


Last 2 paragraphs were a real freaking ray of sunshine, hunh?

Cameron:
That also gets me too, Laura.  I am convinced that the Dozy Embrace happens just the evening before the storm and the last day up on the mountain.  I guess that is part of what makes the DE so sad, and what makes the it so hard to understand why they were so different to each other the next day.

I always thought that Jack was just so cold about taking down the tent and having to leave, and why was he so not able to understand how devastated Ennis was.

Also, why was Ennis back to his old self the next day, all the insecurities and nervousness came right back, and being unable to express himself at all, except his fustration and anger.

I wonder if the dozy embrace really could have happened as it appears at all, or if it was just a moment that was altered in memory to how Jack or maybe even Ennis wished to remember it.

Shasta542:

--- Quote ---I wonder if the dozy embrace really could have happened as it appears at all, or if it was just a moment that was altered in memory to how Jack or maybe even Ennis wished to remember it.
--- End quote ---

Shasta has now recovered from emitting an anguished cry!!!

She is telling herself.......it's okay......Cam didn't mean it......you'll be fine......just relax.......

 ;)

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