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TOTW 03/09: What Was the Attraction?
bailey1205:
Exactly Marie !!!
I don't think they had ever encountered anyone before in their life that showed them one damn bit of companionship.
Someone that really listened and cared.
They truly understood each other.
Monika:
--- Quote from: bailey1205 on May 30, 2009, 07:39:06 pm ---Exactly Marie !!!
I don't think they had ever encountered anyone before in their life that showed them one damn bit of companionship.
Someone that really listened and cared.
They truly understood each other.
--- End quote ---
I think you're right. The image from the movie that has always stuck in my mind in regard to this, is the look on Jack's face as he watches Ennis ride off; it's a look of perfect contentment . In this exact moment, there is not any other place on earth he would rather be. I think that was a very rare state of mind for dreamer Jack. How could he possibly do something besides fall in love?
optom3:
I often find one of the most illuminating things about this film, is we all see the same film and yet so many different interpretations.
That look on Jack's face, has always seemed terribly sad, wistful almost, as if he knows that how ever much he loves Ennis, he seems destined to a lifetime of watching him, ride/drive off into the disatance, away from him.
In fact it is one of the saddest looks from Jack that I see. I am not saying your interpreatation is wrong, it is the same old BBM thing a million viewings and almost as many inferences drawn from those viewings, including many changed opinions at subsequent viewings. Maybe our view is coloured by our own emotional state at the time. :)
bailey1205:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on May 31, 2009, 04:59:16 am ---I think you're right. The image from the movie that has always stuck in my mind in regard to this, is the look on Jack's face as he watches Ennis ride off; it's a look of perfect contentment . In this exact moment, there is not any other place on earth he would rather be. I think that was a very rare state of mind for dreamer Jack. How could he possibly do something besides fall in love?
--- End quote ---
I see it as perfect contentment also.
Probably never had anyone to ever hold him like that before.
Even though Ennis wouldn't hold him from the front because he didn't
want to know it was a man he was holding.
Jack knew what it meant.
When I see that scene, I see a look of love in Jacks eyes.
Luvlylittlewing:
Beautiful, Buffymon! Just gorgeous, and the captions are spot on!
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