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When Jack falls in love... and lets Ennis go
saucycobblers:
Here's my theory...
The moments when Jack falls in love with Ennis and later lets him go are connected by two almost identical shots of Jack's face in the final meeting scene. We cut to the flashback of Ennis holding Jack, and the look on Jack's face when Ennis rides away really feels to me like the moment when Jack realises he's fallen in love with him (in the book this is the moment when Jack feels closest to him). We then cut to the almost identical shot of a very different Jack's face watching Ennis leaving once more. This time Jack has realised that he and Ennis will never be together in the way that Jack craves. I feel that it's the moment he begins to let Ennis go :'(.
Later, Pa Twist tells Ennis that Jack had been talking about bringing Randall up to the ranch the year before, but I don't think this signals his letting go of Ennis, since they've spent their entire lives being with other people whilst in love with each other. It's the moment of their last parting that is the moment of letting go, or final acceptance.
Any thoughts?
opinionista:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on June 27, 2006, 02:36:24 pm ---Here's my theory...
The moments when Jack falls in love with Ennis and later lets him go are connected by two almost identical shots of Jack's face in the final meeting scene. We cut to the flashback of Ennis holding Jack, and the look on Jack's face when Ennis rides away really feels to me like the moment when Jack realises he's fallen in love with him (in the book this is the moment when Jack feels closest to him). We then cut to the almost identical shot of a very different Jack's face watching Ennis leaving once more. This time Jack has realised that he and Ennis will never be together in the way that Jack craves. I feel that it's the moment he begins to let Ennis go :'(.
Later, Pa Twist tells Ennis that Jack had been talking about bringing Randall up to the ranch the year before, but I don't think this signals his letting go of Ennis, since they've spent their entire lives being with other people whilst in love with each other. It's the moment of their last parting that is the moment of letting go, or final acceptance.
Any thoughts?
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I agree, but I don't think Jack lets Ennis go. Ennis ran away. Ennis was always running away from Jack. In fact, that shot is actually shown three times in the movie. The first one happens the morning after they have sex for the first time, when Ennis hops on his horse and runs away without saying a word, leaving Jack sad and confused behind.
I think the last shot of Jack in the movie shows the moment in which he finally realizes or accepts that Ennis will always be running away from him, and that there was nothing he could do about it.
Luvlylittlewing:
I don't think Jack let Ennis go. Actually, I don't think anything really changed between them, but I could be wrong. In the short story, and I'm not saying the movie has to parallel the story in every sense, but Annie P. says, and I paraphrase,
They torqued things to where they had been, for what was said was nothing new. Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved.
I think if anything, Jack gave up the will to live. I truly believe that Jack didn't care whether he lived or died when he realized that Ennis would never build a life with him.
SFEnnisSF:
--- Quote from: littlewing1957 on June 27, 2006, 11:08:15 pm ---I think if anything, Jack gave up the will to live. I truly believe that Jack didn't care whether he lived or died when he realized that Ennis would never build a life with him.
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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Jane:
Yes I agree with that statement completly. He just looked so desolate. :'( :'( Oh btw I dont know if anyone else has read this on LJ, but there is a story called "an imperfect life" about Jack and Ennis, and Jack has just left Ennis!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o
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