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Wow, Mel-O-Tron! That's fantastic. I know that according to the rules I should come up with a whole 'nother interpretation but yours is so good I am totally convinced by it. And here's another instance of it: Ennis, at least after the divorce, didn't have a phone. (He had to send a card to announce his divorce, and then use a pay phone to call Lureen.) So yet more evidence that Jack's dreams don't have a chance with Ennis, so ...
OK, wait, wait -- another interpretation is suggesting itself. Or actually it's sort of the flip side of Mel's. Maybe phones, or lack thereof, represent Ennis' obstinacy toward Jack's offers. Not on your fucking life would Ennis change his mind. Ennis doesn't own a phone because he's not willing to listen to them. He does talk to his boss on the phone, but that's because he puts work as a higher priority than his relationship with Jack. But in the end, after talking to Lureen, he embraces the phone, realizing his mistake ...
nakymaton:
That's it! That's the answer to all my questions about what BBM means to me! I am afraid of telephones (seriously, really, I am, or at least of calling people on the phone). BBM is telling me... embrace the phone. Do not fear the phone.
serious crayons:
So sad. If only Jack and Ennis could have communicated by email ...
But then all of their interactions would have taken on even more scarily literal meanings. And there wouldn't have been enough smileys in the world to keep them together ...
"I wish I knew how to quit you!" >:( :'( :-* :-\
"Well, why don't you? Why don't you let me be?" ??? :-X :-* :'(
PS That's the first time I've had a chance to use that X-mouthed smiley. I have no idea what it's supposed to mean, but it seems like it would apply to a lot of Ennis' lines.
Front-Ranger:
THere was another reference to a phone that will perhaps shed some light on all the other references. That's when Jack, talking into the whiskey bottle, says, "When it comes to our marriage, we could do it over the phone." I'm still in a muddle about the phone, however, so I'll send this for a spin thru the mel-o-tron and see what comes out! :)
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So how about phone = marriage, or life partnership, or commitment?
No fuckin way will Jack and Ennis have it. Ennis isn't even willing to consider having one. He will take a call, though, from his boss. Jack and Lureen may not have the greatest marriage, but they are still connected by that phone. And after talking to Lureen, Ennis belatedly and sadly embraces the phone.
For that matter, all forms of long-distance communication seem to play a role. Ennis and Jack, when apart, communicate entirely by postcards. At the end, Ennis has a postcard by the shirts, as if to keep that line of communication open. Meanwhile, he has retreated from the world so much that he doesn't go into the PO in town anymore -- instead, he has a mailbox. Or does that suggest he's still holding out the hope of receiving "mail"?
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