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"Spiritual" by Pat Matheny & Charlie Haden (The Dozy Embrace)

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starboardlight:
Pat Metheny's Beyond the Missouri Sky is one of my favorite CDs. I love love love that track. I can see how it inspired that scene.

Meryl:
Eric and Paul, thanks so much for posting those videos.  The second one especially, with only the Dozy Embrace in slow motion, beautifully evokes the tenderness mixed with pain that is so much what I feel when I think of Ennis and Jack.  Heartwrenching and beautiful!

I wish we could save those YouTube videos.  If you ever see a version that's downloadable, please let us know.

southendmd:
Gotta bump this for Throwback Thursday. 

The slow-motion video of the dozy embrace is the first video I ever favorited on youtube. 

It still gives me chills.  Somehow, I wish most of the film, especially the scenes with both our boys, were in slow motion so they could last a little longer.  Probably, I'd want the film to linger for, I dunno, about 12 hours...

southendmd:
I was introduced to this album by friends from Texas, back in 1997.  I like to think that I was listening to this album at the same time as Annie, who was writing the dozy embrace paragraph.  I recall that I recognized several of the pieces on the album (like the two from Cinema Paradiso, and Two for the Road), but Spiritual definitely stood out.

Clearly, I'm obsessed.  This scene affected me so much, even on the first showing.  The tenderness, the look on Jack's face as Ennis rides away--it's pure love. I know Heath is amazing, but Jake, in his "supporting role" has moments of brilliance, and this is one of them.  And, the contrast, at the end of the flashback, is devastating.  Yet, it's the same face.  Brilliant. 

I tend to lose it at the "gonna snow tonight for sure" scene, and it's several hankies until the end of the film for me. 

Here is another video in slo-mo, but with the words from the short story.

Sason:
Wow, it's even more powerful with the words added!

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