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I Never Paid Attention to "The Paper Bag"

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RossInIllinois:
I just watched the movie again and noticed Ennis with a paper bag in his hand when first arriving in the movie THEN AGAIN the bag looks almost the same when he leaves Jacks parents home.  I wonder if this was intentional? If so why?

RossInIllinois:
OMG How funny I never saw that "other" thread  ;D

Front-Ranger:
The paper bag strikes me as an almost biblical reference. In the beginning stories of the Redeemer, Jesus, he was born in a manger, which is a place where animals eat
 (to eat=manger). And then on his last evening on earth, he took bread and presented it to his disciples and said, "Here is my body, which is broken for you."

In the same way, Ennis arrived at Brokeback Mountain with a couple of shirts in a paper bag. At the end of the movie, he was leaving Lightning Flat, with the two shirts, consecrated with blood, in a paper bag.

Mandy21:
Wow, Lee, that is some deep Biblical analogy there.  Impressive!

And here, I always thought it was just cause Ennis couldn't afford a proper suitcase to carry his clothes/gear around at the beginning. ;D  And then in the second instance, he arrived expecting to take away nothing but some additional insight into his friend, so the bag had to be given to him by Jack's mom.  What else could she have offered him from that sparse house?  In other words, I never saw it as anything but practical.  But I kinda dig your metaphysical take on it.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 11, 2012, 07:11:32 pm ---At the end of the movie, he was leaving Lightning Flat, with the two shirts, consecrated with blood, in a paper bag.

--- End quote ---

The paper bag as Holy Grail.

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