Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
The "I LOVE everything Jack's Mom" thread
southendmd:
I love Mrs. Twist because she is the only one who understands Ennis's loss and tries to comfort him.
Ennis said kind words to Lureen, and to the Twists (I knew him a long time; we was good friends, etc). But, no one else in Ennis's life would know what Jack meant to him. Not Alma, nor Alma Jr.
Her hand on his shoulder is one of the simple, moving moments in the film.
BTW, how did we learn her name is Mary?? Did I miss something?
TJ:
It's interesting how we can assume something about fictional people like Mrs. John C. Twist (or even other story characters) from a movie and "guess" exactly what they were supposed to have known and yet never met any person like the fictional character.
In the way that Roberta Maxwell described Jack's mother and how she played her, and add to that the fact that Jack's family ranch was way out in the middle of nowhere, and then, for myself, knowing country women who were definitely Practicing Pentecostals, I just have to say, "There was no way that Mary Twist knew what Jack's sexual orientation was. My own parents who were also Pentecostal had no idea that, Bill, my best friend in the early 1980s was bisexual (also heterosexually married) and that we slept together when I spent the night at Bill's house."
Oh, Bill's wife, Carolyn, and I were friends, sorta like brother and sister in our family of choice. She was exclusively heterosexual and she knew Bill's sexual orientation before she married him. She approved of my relationship with her husband. One time she told me, when he was not around to hear it, "Joe, I trust Bill with you; because when I know he's with you, he is not going to get into anykind of trouble."
My parents also like Carolyn and their children.
So, I will stick to my own personal opinion that Jack Twist's mother never knew Jack's and Ennis's sexual orientation and the Twists probably would not have known a homosexual if they had seen one.
TJ:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 10, 2006, 04:25:26 pm ---TJ, why is it that the only person here whom you allow to assume anything about these characters seems to be you? Just wondering.
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Read the first paragraph of what I wrote again!
--- Quote ---It's interesting how we can assume something about fictional people like Mrs. John C. Twist (or even other story characters) from a movie and "guess" exactly what they were supposed to have known and yet never met any person like the fictional character.
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Notice the we! That includes me!
My personal opinion and I mean MY own opinion is not based on what is in the book but, about what Roberta Maxwell said about her role in the movie.
ProwlAmongUs:
I'm sure Mrs. Twist knew about her son's sexual orientation; speaking as a parent myself, I really always knew pretty much what was going on "behind the scenes" with both my daughters. Whether she accepted it or not only she knew. I also believe that, as a believer in the Pentecost, she put into practice what Christ taught; that is, that it wasn't for her or anyone else to judge her son--that task should be left to a higher power.
ProwlAmongUs:
I totally agree with you, DeeDee. Thanks for a nice post.
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