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TOTW 03/09: What Was the Attraction?

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Luvlylittlewing:

--- Quote from: Kerry on May 28, 2009, 07:45:08 pm ---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.

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Same here.  I think about Ennis and Jack all the time.  I even dream about them...still!

Monika:

--- Quote from: bailey1205 on June 01, 2009, 09:24:00 pm ---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.


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Yes, love is what I see too. After all, the ss refers to it as a "single moment of artless, charmed happiness.

Maybe it was at that moment Jack knew for sure how he felt about Ennis. I'd like to think it was.



The contentment, I think stems from feeling loved, and feeling like you're enough. Ennis never expected Jack to be better, more handsome, richer or to work harder etc. In that moment, Jack could just be, and that was enough. Wouldn´t that make us all feel perfectly contented too?

Front-Ranger:
This expression on Jack's face was enuff to earn him the Oscar right there, IMHO. Jake must have been inspired by the story, which goes, in part:

"Ennis's breath came slow and quiet, he hummed, rocked a little in the sparklight, and Jack leaned against the steady heartbeat, the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity..."

and then Annie Proulx winds up:

"Ennis, dredging up a rusty but still usable phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, said, 'Time to hit the hay, cowboy. I got a go. Come on, you're sleepin on your feet like a horse," and gave Jack a shake, a push, and went off in the darkness. Jack heard his spurs tremble as he mounted, the words 'See you tomorrow,' and the horse's shuddering snort, grind of hoof on stone."

This is the last time they ever see each other. How appropriate that it ends with no sex, but sexual imagery, suggesting to the aware reader that the two men united in spirit. There is also the timelessness of childhood and the experience of unconditional love that comes from a mother.

Monika:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 02, 2009, 12:06:38 pm ---This expression on Jack's face was enuff to earn him the Oscar right there, IMHO.

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Amen to that!

Monika:

--- Quote from: Littlewing on June 02, 2009, 02:11:13 am ---Same here.  I think about Ennis and Jack all the time.  I even dream about them...still!

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I often day dream about them. I commute 3 hours to work, so those boys do come in handy ;)

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