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At what moment in BBM did you realize that they were falling in love?
CarlaMom2:
I agree with alot of what everyone is saying. When the boys are talking and it was the most Ennis spoke in a year, you saw a softer side of Ennis. The second tent scene was so tender and Ennis really let himself go. When they were leaving early and it hit Ennis so hard. He became so angry again. It was sad because you knew it was because he didn't want to go. You could really feel the love between them.
I get so choked up thinking about those scenes. They were done so beautifully.
Front-Ranger:
I think rt would be happy to see his post over here on the Open Forum getting a new lease on life. I really enjoyed reading these thoughts again, as well as the new ones (Toast, U are a crack-up!!) I agree with you Toast, and did you notice how Ennis fumbled picking up Jack's lighter? Another clue, LOL.
I just had a new idea about when they realized they were in love. What about when they had to separate? It mentions in the story a couple of times when Ennis left the campfire to go up to the sheep. That is when his thoughts of love and happiness seemed to be the strongest.
Katie77:
This is my third thought of when they "fell in love".....i guess the more I think of scenes, the more times I realize how much their love was happening.....
When Ennis is lying at the campfire, looking up at the moon, "just sending up a prayer of thanks"........maybe that was the first time he felt comfortable saying about what he was feeling.....
I wrote about my thoughts on their love, in my blog the other day, so have copied a paragraph which I wrote, and what I think their love meant to Ennis......
Got to thinking about Ennis and the love he felt for Jack....I have always been of the opinion, that Ennis was not gay, and the more I thought of it today, just confirmed it even more....He fell in love with Jack, regardless, and in spite of the fact that he was of the same sex.....he was the one and only true love that Ennis could fit in his heart, as he found out thru his life. Maybe it was because, Jack was the only one ever in his life to return the same kind of love, that Ennis craved for.......
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on December 07, 2006, 06:50:26 pm ---Got to thinking about Ennis and the love he felt for Jack....I have always been of the opinion, that Ennis was not gay, and the more I thought of it today, just confirmed it even more....He fell in love with Jack, regardless, and in spite of the fact that he was of the same sex.....he was the one and only true love that Ennis could fit in his heart, as he found out thru his life. Maybe it was because, Jack was the only one ever in his life to return the same kind of love, that Ennis craved for.......
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Sue, what makes you feel that Ennis is not gay? If he's attracted to a man, and enjoys sex with a man, and is in love with a man, doesn't that make him gay (or at least bi) pretty much by definition?
I think of Ennis as gay, and not even very bi, because he doesn't seem particularly attracted to Alma or Cassie. I do think it's possible he wasn't attracted to other men besides Jack. (Though I suspect he has been in the past.)
moremojo:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on December 08, 2006, 12:36:45 pm ---Sue, what makes you feel that Ennis is not gay? If he's attracted to a man, and enjoys sex with a man, and is in love with a man, doesn't that make him gay (or at least bi) pretty much by definition?
I think of Ennis as gay, and not even very bi, because he doesn't seem particularly attracted to Alma or Cassie. I do think it's possible he wasn't attracted to other men besides Jack. (Though I suspect he has been in the past.)
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Sue's perception was shared by both me and my sister when we first saw the film. My sister still holds to this view, and argues that the film functions most provocatively and challengingly when it suggests that love can furrow paths that our minds and hearts might never have contemplated; for my part, I have come to see Ennis as an extremely repressed homosexual man.
My initial feeling of Ennis's primary heterosexuality originated in large part from the fact that nowhere do we ever sense that Ennis is attracted to any male other than Jack. In my observations and experiences as a gay man, I find this most unusual, but I concede that it is not impossible. I now understand Ennis's apparent apathy towards other males as probable evidence of his profound repression and denial.
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