You gotta feel sad for Ennis in the bar, as they "start drinkin together"
Ennis can barely believe that this cute guy would bother talking to him.
The way Ennis looks at Jack, says that Ennis has been on the far edge of too many conversations, and never expectts to be asked to talk about himself.
That look on his face tells so much about his relationship with his family and the world.
Makes me wonder which part of his life was the hardest - before or after his parents died?
does he ever talk about his Momma??
This lovely scene shows him thinking of his Mom
134 EXT: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: CAMPFIRE: NIGHT: 134 CONTINUOUS:
JACK, much younger, stands by the campfire.
WE SEE two arms encircle him from behind: it is ENNIS, also much younger.
They stand that way for a moment, JACK leaning back into ENNIS. ENNIS'S breath comes slow and quiet, then he starts to gently rock back and forth a little, lit by the warm fire tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against a rock. ENNIS hums quietly.
Nothing mars this moment for JACK, even though he knows that ENNI5 does not embrace him face to face because he does not want to see or feel that it is JACK he holds - because for now, they are wrapped in a closeness that satisfies some shared and sexless hunger, that is not really sleep but something else drowsy and trenched - until ENNIS, dredging up a rusty phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, says:
ENNIS Time to hit the hay, cowboy, I got to go.
(pause) Come on now, you're sleepin' on your feet like a horse.
Gives JACK a little shake, a gentle push, and JACK stumbles ever so slightly in the direction of his tent, stops. Hears ENNIS'S spurs jingle as he mounts his horse.
ENNIS . . .See you tomorrow....
A shuddering snort from ENNIS'S horse, the grind of hoof on stone, and ENNIS rides away, JACK watching him go.
Jack says almost the same thing to him
on the morning they leave the mountain
"All right. Time to get goin', cowboy."