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Was Mexico all about revenge or about need?
twistedude:
For Siede, with Love and squalor:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3061097/1/
anger, sex, the need to ber loved, and the need to have someone to love. Take it or leave it. There's a sequel too. 2, in fact. It wouldn't KILL you to read them!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 29, 2006, 04:37:34 pm ---Back to Jack's motivations for Mexico. I don't think it's revenge, that is, deliberately hurting Ennis (even if Ennis would never find out) to get back at him for hurting Jack. Nor does it seem tantrum-like to me. What it seems more like is a mix of anger, frustration, hearbreak, loneliness, disappointment and desperation. Like, "Well, screw Ennis! I don't need him." Except, of course, he does.
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Essentially I agree with you, Katherine. It's just that to me (granted I'm not a parent), Jack's reaction, tearing off to Mexico, strikes me as, well, tantrum-ish. Even outside of the Brokeback context, I've just always felt that going off and having sex wherever and from whomever you can get it, when you can't get it from the partner you really want, when you are clearly as hurt and upset as Jack, is the adult gay male equivalent of a 2-year-old holding his breath till he turns blue.
And in saying this, I don't in any way intend to minimize Jack's pain, or the fact that what he really needs and wants from Ennis is a whole lot more than just sex. I've just always felt that Jack's reaction is essentially childish. This also doesn't mean I don't hurt for him, 'cause I sure enough do.
David In Indy:
Melissa -
Actually I always figured it was a little bit of both. But, now that I think about it, you are probably correct. :D
bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
I think Jack was hurt and was looking for a way to make himself feel better. There, I assume, he realized that sex is no substitute for the intimacy he had with Ennis.
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: bbm_stitchbuffyfan on August 29, 2006, 08:39:17 pm ---I think Jack was hurt and was looking for a way to make himself feel better. There, I assume, he realized that sex is no substitute for the intimacy he had with Ennis.
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Well put. Remember the hollow look Jack had? Same as the end of when he was dancing with Lureen.
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