Wow- just spent a good while reading through this entire thread and tell you what, you guys are freakin amazing.
Jack:
When Jack pulls up to Ennis’s house after the divorce, you can hear on Jack’s radio: “...went nuts for it!” >> “Jack went nuts for Ennis” (or vice versa]
Also, after Jack drives off, while he's crying, the line of the Emmylou Harris song that is playing during that scene is "...your laughter's like wind in my sails..." which I always took to be a nod towards the Jack/Wind relationship. And now Jack is obviously
not laughing (it's actually the only time in the movie that we see him cry, isn't it?)
And if you don't mind me interjecting a line:
When Aguirre comes up the Mountain to tell Jack that his Uncle Harold is in the hospital,
Jack: Bad news, but there's nothing I can do about it up here.
Aguirre: Not much you can do about it down there neither, unless you can cure pneumonia. (as he is looking at Ennis, displeased, through his binoculars)I've always taken this to be somewhat of a rebuttal to the "one shot thing" line. In other words, this "thing" is not going to go away just because you come down off the mountain. And also, that Jack (and Ennis, I suppose) are powerless to change the way they feel.
And on top of that, I see the binoculars (or Aguirre's use of the binoculars- he wouldn't have seen Jack and Ennis together without them, unless he came up the mountain himself and happened upon them) as a representation of how society and government is stepping over their bounds in regulating the behavior of homosexuals: sodomy laws, not allowing homosexuals to marry, etc. Why should it even bother anyone? And yet they go at great lengths (i.e. use their big binoculars) to spy on and regulate even the most private and remote parts of human experience.