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Sammi:
On the topic of forshadowing... When they are camping in '67 (their reunion), during the scene where Ennis is talking about "This thing grabs a hold of us, in the wrong place, wrong time", the camera shows Jack with his eyes looking downward.  And as soon as Ennis says the words "We're dead" Jacks eyes look up.  I think the way this is filmed, for Jack to raise his eyes up at that moment is pretty symbolic.   I took it as a bit of foreshadowing, like Jack was being warned of his own death. 

I also have thought that was the moment that Jack realized how fearful Ennis was , but I don't think Jack shared the same fears.  The look on his face when Ennis says "we're dead" is almost like "who the hell cares".  I think Jack would have rather lived the way he wanted and if it got him killed then at least he had enjoyed the sweet life for a while.  I think he would have prefered that over all those years of anguish and staying "safe".

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Sammi on November 27, 2009, 03:17:50 pm ---I think the way this is filmed, for Jack to raise his eyes up at that moment is pretty symbolic.   I took it as a bit of foreshadowing, like Jack was being warned of his own death. 

I also have thought that was the moment that Jack realized how fearful Ennis was , but I don't think Jack shared the same fears.  The look on his face when Ennis says "we're dead" is almost like "who the hell cares".  I think Jack would have rather lived the way he wanted and if it got him killed then at least he had enjoyed the sweet life for a while.  I think he would have prefered that over all those years of anguish and staying "safe".

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I agree with you a hunerd percent, Sammi! Another instance of foreshadowing that I think is pretty powerful is in the story, when it talks about the boneless blue sky, so blue that Jack thought he could "drown looking up." In this case, he predicted his own method of death. Ironically, Jack did not feel like suffocating his natural self, as you point out, but he did die by suffocation, through drowning, and it was Ennis who went on living a suffocated life. Sad.

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