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Ennis or Jack? Which one did you identify with more?

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monimm18:
Kea,

Wow... Your post has examplified this film's introspective power and its ability to change us.

Thank you.

starboardlight:

--- Quote from: Kea on April 04, 2006, 02:12:30 am ---
I think over the last couple of weeks I have come to realize that I need to be Jack.......even if I risk the tire iron..( sorry for the analogy bashing ) ....cos there is not other way to live......for me at least.

...When I see Jack on the screen..I want to hug him and say sorry too...for not accepting him as part of who I am.....of not giving him a place in my life...


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that's is beautiful. That is one of the reasons I love Jack so much. I love what he inspires in me to be. I want to be able to take that risk. And you're exactly right, I grieve for him because I've shut him out of me.

j.U.d.E.:
I can't really 'identify' as such, but if I need to choose then I'd say I am an Ennis. Though once in a while my Jack peaks through.. if you know what I mean.

~ j U d E

vkm91941:

--- Quote from: montferrat on April 04, 2006, 02:06:20 am ---I most emphatically would have to say:  Ennis.

Not for any romantic similarities, but because I saw him as very very lonely and "an island unto himself"
and I could relate very strongly to that.

This movie was the impetus for me to change many things that had me heading for a life all by myself and I thank God I have been able to use the sorrow and empathy I felt for Ennis to redirect my own life.

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Now that's beautiful Paul and very well said.  Thats how I feel too, this film opened my eyes to the passage of time and how I was going to be old and alone if I didn't get my act together.  I'm still alive and I need to live!

delalluvia:
I indentified more with Jack. 

Sadly for me, I seem to have a habit of choosing quiet, introspective men as lovers, only to find out, like Jack, that the reasons for their quietness and 'shyness' and introspection is because of some trauma or issues they have in life.  Like Jack, I've spent more years than I care to remember, being with these high maintenance men, helping where I could, dealing with their issues on a daily basis at times or their restricted schedules, gladly taking whatever they could give me because we did share good times only to find out in the end that, like Ennis, they were not going to change - or at least they weren't going to change for me.

It really hurts.

Like Jack, I can remember the good times, how this person 'really' was because I did fall in love with something of them, something no one else could see because the man was private, but in the end, all you have are the ashes of your relationship, their issues and the years spent getting nowhere.

I can cry for the Ennis' I've loved, because I know where fear and insecurity can drive a man, but in the end, I'm crying for Jack.

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