Kissing is so intimate. Its a way of showing and feeling how much one is loved.
Hm. Kissing
can be very intimate and everything you meant above. But not necessarily so, it can also just happen in the heat of the moment. Like you described the reunion kiss:
There was so much pent up love and longing after 4 years that when they saw each other again, nature took over, and as "easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers" Jack and Ennis kissed and hard for the first time disregarding any rules of society.
My argument here is that on Brokeback there already was a good deal of pent up sexual tension, and of longing in those two. They were 19 year old teenagers after all.
And both of them were (or became) pretty uninhibited during their summer:
After the first night:
"...both[!]
knew how it would go for the rest of the summer, sheep be damned." (I love the great "sheep be damned" phrase) This sentence shows a different Ennis than movieEnnis.
And on they go:
"They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight with the hot sun striking down, and at evening in the fire glow, quick, rough, laughing and snorting, no lack of noises, but not saying a goddamn word except once..."Annies says
twice in this one sentence, that they didn't talk about the sex, but what she does
not say is, that they didn't kiss.
"There were only the two of them on the mountain..."
"They believed themselves invisible..."No rules, no society up there (at least they think so - f*** Aguirre). But plenty of passion and uninhibited sex. I can imagine passionate kisses belonging to the scenario, too.
They "let it happen". How exactly did it "happen"? I don't mean the sexual act itself, but
how to begin it? Ennis coming down from the sheep and Jack wordlessly opening his pants? Ennis jumping directly on Jack after gulping down the last beans on his plate? I think not. They had a real good time together, they were not only f***-buddies, but friends. They traded stories, talked about the sheep, bitching about Aguirre, and so on.
I picture them sitting at the campfire, munching their food, smoking a cigarette afterwards and talking and laughing together. How in hell did they come from that to having sex? There must have been some kind of "foreplay", however brief, maybe sometimes consisting in only a look of mutual understanding, but other times some kind of physical contact must have happened before the act itself.
I know it doesn't mean that kissing must have ben a part of that physical contact. But it makes me wonder.
Another thing that makes me wonder; not necessarily tied to the question of kissing:
"..., and in a little while they deepened their intimacy considerably."Before Jack took Ennis's hand and brought it to his penis, they already had come considerably closer. What do you think: only closer in regard to the space between them (huddling against each other) - or else?