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"Jack, I swear..." What do you think Ennis meant by that?
Rayn:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on October 08, 2007, 07:36:01 am ---It's the least ambivalent line in the book----and the one with the most debate!
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That is one of the best comments I've ever read on here because it 's so succinct and so true. Yes, the emotions behind the line are very straight forward and strong.
It's so Ennis to say it too, as I see him. He can be very true and honest at times and then too, at times, he can be very ambivalent about his feeling. Ennis, in my opinion, is a more complex character than Jack, and so it's natural he would say that line.
It's what he means by it that causes debate because again, like Ennis, what he doesn't say is often as important as what he does say. Great insight brokebackjack! :)
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: Rayn on October 08, 2007, 10:44:47 am --- That is one of the best comments I've ever read on here because it 's so succinct and so true. Yes, the emotions behind the line are very straight forward and strong.
It's so Ennis to say it too, as I see him. He can be very true and honest at times and then too, at times, he can be very ambivalent about his feeling. Ennis, in my opinion, is a more complex character than Jack, and so it's natural he would say that line.
It's what he means by it that causes debate because again, like Ennis, what he doesn't say is often as important as what he does say. Great insight brokebackjack! :)
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I think Ennis wants to let go a lot of the time but he forces himself to hold back. He is a conundrum!
It's like he has 2 sides fighting for dominance! I can so relate to him for that.
Artiste:
At least Ennis is a man, saying that phrase!!
And he thinks!! Feels too more??
Hugs!
brokebackjack:
I meant what I wrote about that line; at the same time, it is deliberately designed so the reader--I am speaking of the short story--fills in the blank. And in the film it is the same.
The problem is we all talk too damned much.
lol
Artiste:
Jack I swear... that from now on that gays or a gay will know that i am a gay man?
Could that be?
Hugs!
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