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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 09, 2007, 11:30:38 am ---Well, I'm just sayin, I think the fact that the grass (or corn, or soybeans, or whatever the heck it is) that looks all green and healthy and natural and alive is outside the window, while Ennis himself is closed up inside -- considering the outside/inside distinction and the looking-through-windows symbolism that run throughout the film -- is significant. If the last shot were of Ennis outdoors in nature, it would have a different effect.
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"Looking-through-windows symbolism"? Lord, that's another thread I think I'm glad I missed. ;) ;D
moremojo:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on February 10, 2007, 10:52:28 am ---Ennis is just in purgatory.
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And Ennis is still a working ranch hand by story's end...the trailer is basically just where he rests up between his work stints, which always take place out of doors. The round-up in which he decides not to participate in order to attend Junior's wedding would take place in the Tetons...just the kind of high country in which he found love with Jack. So Ennis would be exposed to Brokeback-reminiscent landscapes for the foreseeable future.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 11, 2007, 03:58:04 pm ---"Looking-through-windows symbolism"? Lord, that's another thread I think I'm glad I missed. ;) ;D
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I don't think there's a single thread devoted to it, but it's been mentioned on quite a few threads. Notice how often Ennis is looking through a window or off into nature when thinking of or talking about Jack.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 11, 2007, 06:16:55 pm ---Notice how often Ennis is looking through a window or off into nature when thinking of or talking about Jack.
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Thanks, but I don't think I want to. I'm sorry if I'm offensive, but for me, personally, this excess of symbolism is just starting to seem a little ridiculous. (Of course, some of it has always seemed a bit de trops to me.) Maybe I'm just moving into a new "phase." :-\
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 12, 2007, 09:41:34 am ---Thanks, but I don't think I want to. I'm sorry if I'm offensive, but for me, personally, this excess of symbolism is just starting to seem a little ridiculous. (Of course, some of it has always seemed a bit de trops to me.) Maybe I'm just moving into a new "phase." :-\
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That's okay Jeff. It just leaves more for us to talk about!
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