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Topic of the Week 2/07: Did Ennis and Jack kiss at all up on Brokeback?

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Penthesilea:
Howdy folks,

a big thank you to everybody who participated in the last TOTW  :)! It was great to get so much input and to read a wide range of opinions. I'll add my two cents in the next days (never enough time...).

The different Topics of the Week will be consecutively numbered for every year. I modified last weeks title to "Topic of the Week 1/07: ...", meaning it is the first TOTW in the year 2007. Accordingly this week's is TOTW 2/07 and the first TOTW next January will be 01/08, and so on.


You wanna know more about the concept of the TOTW? Go here and read an introduction:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,12186.0.html


Enough of the organizational stuff - now to the current TOTW:

It is story only, since the answer for the movie is definitely given by Ang Lee in TS2.

Some people think the famous reunion kiss as described by Annie Proulx was their first kiss ever, that they never kissed during their first and only summer on Brokeback. Others are sure they did of course kiss each other. What do you think?


Story only: Did Ennis and Jack kiss at all up on Brokeback?

Scott6373:
I would doubt it.  Based on AP's description of their sexual activities, kissing would have been too intimate an acitivity.  To Ennis, it would have been a physical expression of something he didn't understand, and also an admission, albeit a silent one, that he was indeed queer.

opinionista:
I disagree with Scott though he has a point. When they reunited they kissed each other without thinking about it. I think it means, they might have kissed up in Brokeback, since the reunion kiss came very natural to them.

Toast:
[Proulx]

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his[Jack's] memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see nor feel that it was Jack he held.

And maybe, he thought, they'd never got much farther than that.

Let be, let be.

moremojo:
Toast just made the point that immediately came to my mind. Judging from this detail, it seems unlikely that story Ennis and Jack ever kissed on Brokeback...though I sure wish they had (and it's not impossible that they did).

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