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Missed opportunity...
Kd5000:
Ennis discusses with Jack about how sometimes he wonders if ppl can tell that he's (well he doesn't say gay). Does this mean that Ennis at this point has recognized that he's homosexual and wonders if he can still "pass" as being straight? ??? Well Jack's response is why don't you move to TX which just pisses Ennis off. He should have carried forward with the a.m. conversation.
The other thing was when Ennis ask Jack if it's normal between he and his wife. Suppose it would have been too honest (he lies about seeing a woman on the side) for Jack to say it's nothing like what we got here. Though of course he does say something on the lines of "sometimes I miss you so much I can barely stand it." That was heartfelt and yet Ennis says nothing... Talked about his inability to express his heart. I mean I wouldn't have expected Ennis to say something like Love means never having to say I miss you. :) However, Ennis makes no comment.
I think those were two crucial missed opportunities.
Ellemeno:
Yes. Lots of missed opportunities in Our Film.
How come Jack didn't offer Ennis a ride when they first came down off the mountain, or suggest that they go try to find a month's worth of work somewhere else together, since they weren't expected back anywhere til the end of August?
How come Jack never actually invited Ennis to come to his parents' ranch, just a vague "cow and calf operation" suggestion? He could have even asked him to just spend one of their weeks together there helping out, so that they could test how it would go. He talked to his father about bringing Ennis, but never talked to Ennis about bringing Ennis.
David:
First of all, I think those are two different get togethers you are mixing.
True, Ennis does say that, but I think it is not that he accepts that he is gay, but he is paranoid someone knows that he is having an affair with Jack. As for Jack saying his marriage is normal, he should have said "normal appearing".
Jack saying "come down to Texas" was yet another attempt at fishing for Ennis's fealings. He was hoping Ennis knew he had no reason to stay up in Wyoming. No wife, poor jobs, why not a fresh start somewhere new? Oh? the kids? Well, Leslie has shown us in her fan fiction story that it is possible to have it all. :)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on May 09, 2006, 01:59:04 pm ---How come Jack never actually invited Ennis to come to his parents' ranch, just a vague "cow and calf operation" suggestion? He could have even asked him to just spend one of their weeks together there helping out, so that they could test how it would go. He talked to his father about bringing Ennis, but never talked to Ennis about bringing Ennis.
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Good point. It's crossed my mind that perhaps the only realistic opportunity they might have had to make it work, the two of them having a place, was to take over or at least run Jack's folks' place. It was already a going concern, even if it was in sad shape. No land or equipment or cattle to buy to get started.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on May 09, 2006, 02:00:09 pm ---
Jack saying "come down to Texas" was yet another attempt at fishing for Ennis's fealings. He was hoping Ennis knew he had no reason to stay up in Wyoming. No wife, poor jobs, why not a fresh start somewhere new? Oh? the kids? Well, Leslie has shown us in her fan fiction story that it is possible to have it all. :)
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Ennis's paranoia would not have abated one iota if he had relocated to Childress, at the point in time in which the story is set. He would have been closer to Jack, and would have had occasion to see him more often, but he would have been just as fearful, and would have had just as much reason to be fearful, as he had been in Wyoming. And of course Jack (presumably) dies in or near Childress, and Ennis assumes that he was murdered (and he may be right).
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