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Looking Through the Window

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Front-Ranger:
It's really amazing how many critical scenes take place with the actors standing by a window or in between two windows or a window and a door. What does this mean? Well, for starters, if there is a window in the scene, it means you should pay attention because something important is going to happen. For instance, in a pivotal scene, Alma looks out a window and sees....this!!

Front-Ranger:
Here it is from the reverse POV:

Front-Ranger:
Yes, it's incredible how many scenes feature a window! For instance, here's a late scene of Ennis at the bus station, eating pie, when he is confronted by Cassie:

Front-Ranger:
And here is Lureen as she answers that fateful one phone call from Ennis. She is sitting in front of a window, with the white light pouring through, making a nimbus of her platinumed hair:

Front-Ranger:
Lureen is not often seen in conjunction with a window. In fact, she is most often seen with her back against a wall...when baby Bobbie is born, as two rednecks diss her husband, as she works the adding machine.

Alma, on the other hand, is often seen with a window nearby. She is not in the dark about her husband. Alma may be poor, but she always has a window in her kitchen! Here's one of my favourite pictures of her, as her silhouette seems to form the shape of the mountain, with the little yin/yang salt and pepper shakers visible through the gap between her arm and her body:

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