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TOTW 03/09: What Was the Attraction?
Kerry:
--- Quote from: optom3 on May 28, 2009, 04:48:02 pm ---
I absolutely love those words, they tear, my very soul apart, what a perfect example of Bittersweet. Like you I also wonder about the Jack we do not see,more so than Ennis. Does he as you say, go upstairs to his room and try to breathe in the very essence of Ennis and BBM. Does he cry as he recalls the idyllic summer that was Brokeback.
Does BBM ever let go I wonder, or will I be forever be held captive within its spell ?
--- End quote ---
Does BBM ever let go? Well, in my own case, I thought I was pretty much all cried out. Until, that is, I read what you wrote above. And back again the tears came. Looks like I'm a captive for life and I'm at peace with that.
bailey1205:
I am happy to see folks on here referring to the SS.
When I think of BBM, more and more I think of the SS.
I get a better understanding of how the boys became attracted to one another.
They were both lonely young men, that probably never had a friend.
Someone that listened. Cared about each other feelings.
The movie paints Ennis to be more closed off then the way I read the SS.
SS Ennis was more vocal about his feelings, although I really don't think
he was completely able to comprehend that what his feelings were were love
until after their reunion.
Monika:
--- Quote from: bailey1205 on May 29, 2009, 11:50:48 am ---although I really don't think
he was completely able to comprehend that what his feelings were were love
until after their reunion.
--- End quote ---
Do you think that Jack realised it earlier or at the same time as Ennis, Bailey?
bailey1205:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on May 29, 2009, 12:00:41 pm --- Do you think that Jack realised it earlier or at the same time as Ennis, Bailey?
--- End quote ---
Oh, I do think Jack realized it while on that mountain.
He knew Ennis was skittish about the 'queer' part.
It was actually Jack in the SS that said it was a one shot thing, nobody's business but ours.
I think when they both came down off that mountain, they both knew something special happened
between them, but they didn't know how to articulate it.
As Ennis said in the reunion...... I been setting up here all this time wondering if I was..............
then he went on to say I know I ain't.
Katie77:
--- Quote from: bailey1205 on May 29, 2009, 12:46:34 pm ---Oh, I do think Jack realized it while on that mountain.
He knew Ennis was skittish about the 'queer' part.
It was actually Jack in the SS that said it was a one shot thing, nobody's business but ours.
I think when they both came down off that mountain, they both knew something special happened
between them, but they didn't know how to articulate it.
As Ennis said in the reunion...... I been setting up here all this time wondering if I was..............
then he went on to say I know I ain't.
--- End quote ---
I think that line says exactly how Ennis was feeling.......to accept he was in love with Jack, was to him, admitting he was queer....he really did not want to think of himself as queer.
Even at the reunion, he is still reinforcing, that he "knows he aint".......was marrying Alma and being able to make love to a woman, his justification that he was not?
It seems he was more concerned about thinking himself queer, than anything else.
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