The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Ennis felt that the violation of their sexual xclusiveness, when Jack went to Mexico, was like an act of betrayal.

[Toast]

Round 485

SIMs Alive
oops - similies
and Meta4s

[Fran]

"...by the end of the film we have passed through the 70s and entered the 80s, and still nothing has changed in Ennis’ Wyoming, a place seemingly frozen in time like the relics of his love that he preserves, heartbreakingly, in an all-too-literal closet."

-- Justin Vicari, Jumpcut:  A Review of Contemporary Media     

[Toast]

Joseph Aguirre seemed as bossy as a military dictator while he passed out his eating, sleeping and sheeping rules.

[memento]

After years of Ennis' "fishing trips", Alma felt as if it were time to paddle her own canoe and divorced him.

=aside= Toast
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[Fran]

An excerpt from Ephiphany on Brokeback  by Dr. David Jenkins:

Over the next twenty years, Ennis and Jack married strong women, raised children, worked rodeos and ranches, sold farm machinery, and after two decades of occasional “fishing trips”  near Brokeback to rekindle their fire, the story comes to a tragic halt.  The scene shifts from the verdant mountains to the desolate flatlands.  The years of emotional and physical isolation, the internalized homophobia, the denial of self, and the denial of love converge like rivers flooding the grief-stricken plains.

[Meryl]

By the end of his last confrontation with Jack at the lake, Ennis's control over his emotions had worn thin as an eggshell, needing only Jack's "I wish I knew how to quit you" to crack completely.

[memento]

While Ennis was waiting for Jack to show up for their four-year reunion, he drank beer after beer and smoked like a furnace.

[Toast]

Jack complained how god-awful hard it was to get a mutual time with Ennis:  "It's like seein the pope now."

[southendmd]

A song by Oscar Hammerstein II reminds me of Ennis while he's waiting for reunion Jack to show in September '67: 

"I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string,
I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring."

(--from "It might as well be spring", State Fair, 1945)