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"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe..."
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 17, 2006, 01:24:17 am ---
Every time I watch it, I get caught by surprise at the post-divorce scene. Because that, for me, is where the story starts to really go downhill emotionally. When it comes, I always think, "Noooo! Not already! It's too soon! For god's sake, give them a little more time!"
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Once more, I'm with you here. I always think: from now on, there's only direction everything goes: down.
One time I stopped the movie in the court room scene, because I just couldn't bear it at that day.
--- Quote from: Momof2 on August 17, 2006, 10:24:05 am ---This is sad. I am a grown woman. Damn you BrokeBack and thank God for you.
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I'm grown woman too. But I also have days when I just can't bear it. Aditionally to stopping at the scene in the court room, I also stopped twice when they come down the mountain.
I have also another stategy: after watching the whole movie, including the credits to the very last (and crying all the time), sometimes I watch the first 10 or 15 minutes of the movie again. Et voilà, here they are again: young, full of life and so wonderful alive. It helps, at least for me.
Oh my, pretty crazy :-\ But they feel so damn real. Like others have said: like close friends, like people you've known a long time and known very well.
Weeks ago I was at a handball tournament with my husband and children. A big crowd of people, among them a bunch of friends and fellow supporting parents whose children play toghether with mine for years now. And suddenly I sat among these people and thought about Ennis Del Mar. How he would feel in such a group of people. (Awkward; he wouldn't like it, having to be social and all, chit-chatting here and there and so on ;D) I catch myself thinking about Ennis or Jack, how they would feel or behave in situations of real life. Now is this crazy or just another sign of Brokeback-fever?
It eases my mind that Annie Proulx herself and Ang Lee seem to have felt similar: I love the way Annie Proulx descibes in her essay "Getting movied" how these characters came to life for her, and the fact that Ang Lee thanked Ennis and Jack (not Heath and Jake or Annie) in his acceptence speech at the oscars.
BTW I read this snippet about Ang Lee somewhere here on BetterMost, but don't know who said it.
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on August 26, 2006, 08:27:29 pm ---And suddenly I sat among these people and thought about Ennis Del Mar. How he would feel in such a group of people. (Awkward; he wouldn't like it, having to be social and all, chit-chatting here and there and so on ;D) I catch myself thinking about Ennis or Jack, how they would feel or behave in situations of real life. Now is this crazy or just another sign of Brokeback-fever?
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I do this too, I've caught myself at it several times. Thinking wbout Ennis and Jack and what they'd do if they were present or in a similar situation. It doesn't feel crazy, but a bit lonely, because I don't feel I can voice those thoughts out loud. It's good to have all of you and this board where I can go on about the two of them.
--- Quote ---It eases my mind that Annie Proulx herself and Ang Lee seem to have felt similar: I love the way Annie Proulx descibes in her essay "Getting movied" how these characters came to life for her, and the fact that Ang Lee thanked Ennis and Jack (not Heath and Jake or Annie) in his acceptence speech at the oscars.
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Exactly! Me too, me too.
serious crayons:
When I used to see the movie in the theater, I would come out onto the crowded sidewalk (out on the pavement!) and think, the people I spent the past 134 minutes with feel more real than these people who are here around me.
jpwagoneer1964:
To me Heath and Jake will be Ennis and Jack.
moremojo:
Here's my take:
There was some open space...
--There was some room to forget, for just a moment, the reality of what Ennis's life (more specifically, his life without Jack) had become. The use of the metaphor of 'open space' is so apposite for a ranch hand born, bred, and likely to die under the big skies of the Western lands.
...between what he knew...
--What Ennis knew is that Jack was dead and, to his mind, lost to him forever.
...and what he tried to believe...
--Ennis must have hoped, in fleeting, elusive moments, to hear Jack's voice, to see a new postcard from him, to feel his hand surprise him in the sweetest of ways. He saw Jack in his dreams, and believed enough in the verisimilitude of the vision to awaken sometime with the sheets wet--how saddened he must have immediately become to remember that it was, after all, only a dream.
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