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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: moremojo on February 08, 2007, 07:46:15 pm ---And I do see hope as well in the ending.
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I always have, too, though in a way I'm sure others would disagree with or find controversial. Whatever it is that we see through the trailer window, waving in the wind, just prairie grass or some kind of growing grain, it's green. It's alive. It's growing.
If the filmmakers had wanted to convey despair, they could just as easily have had something yellowed, dried-up, and dead visible through that window. But they don't. We see something alive.
And it's something waving in the wind. This might be the point for some comment about "Jack is the wind," or whatever, but I've never followed that thread of thought, so I'll stop here. :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 08, 2007, 11:20:49 pm ---Whatever it is that we see through the trailer window, waving in the wind, just prairie grass or some kind of growing grain, it's green. It's alive. It's growing.
If the filmmakers had wanted to convey despair, they could just as easily have had something yellowed, dried-up, and dead visible through that window. But they don't. We see something alive.
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I understand what you're saying Jeff, but I think it's ambiguous. After all, the green grass is outside of the window.
Front-Ranger:
To me, it looks like green corn. Any Midwesterners have a thought on that?
Maybe I'm just obsessing on corn mazes...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 09, 2007, 12:04:12 am ---I understand what you're saying Jeff, but I think it's ambiguous. After all, the green grass is outside of the window.
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Oh, for heaven's sake, Katherine, where do you want it to be? Growing in Ennis's living room? :laugh:
I figured you'd be the one to disagree, Little Darlin'. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 09, 2007, 12:51:42 am ---To me, it looks like green corn. Any Midwesterners have a thought on that?
Maybe I'm just obsessing on corn mazes...
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Do they grow corn--maize--in Wyoming? ???
Looks a little too "flowing" in its waving for cornstalks, to me, but I could be wrong.
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