Update: I have watched the film once all the way through on my DVD copy. That's right--only once so far! It's hard to explain, but watching the movie in my home is unusually heart-wrenching--it was one thing to experience the movie in the theatre and take the memory of it and all its attendant emotions home with you, it's quite another to have that happen directly in your abode. The movie is somehow too powerful for that space.
So I revisit the boys via the DVD in increments, very rarely venturing past their departure from the mountain. In my heart, that's where I want to think of them being always.