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calenloss:
Anyone else get the feeling that Lureen was aware of exactly who Ennis Del Mar was and what he meant to her deceased husband? I don't know quite what it was, but I just got the impression that the steely glaze & monotone voice really began to be displayed after he's formally introduced himself.

I also got the impression that, in a wonderful counterpoint with Jack's mother, she wanted Ennis to fulfil Jack's last wishes - more than she could admit. The way she blurts out that he should go up to Lightning Flat after a very long and torured silence (when Ennis has said goodbye) said to me that Lureen had struggled with the revelations about her husband but knew it was for the best - possibly because she loved Jack too. Sh epushed him to LF, while Jacks' mother pulled him to what he needed to find.

opinionista:
I think Lureen had a feeling or heard about Jack wandering around but didn't know it for a fact until Ennis explains that Brokeback Mountain was not a pretend place, as she had tought but the place where they had met. And that is when reality hits her. From that moment on she begins to really understand what Jack's fishing trips were all about, and why Jack wanted his ashes to be spread on Brokeback Mountain. It was like a wake up call for Lureen.

Marge_Innavera:

My interpretation has been that she knew Jack hadn't been faithful to her, and maybe thought that either the "fishing trips" were bogus and Jack was visiting a girlfriend or that Jack and Ennis were catting around in some city rather than fishing in the wilderness. But I also think she assumed it was a woman, not a man, in Jack's life. Her quizzing him about why his fishing buddy never comes to Texas might have been a way of needling him and trying to let him knew that she was aware he was running around on her. But the revelation of what Ennis had really meant to him was a shock.

Kelda:
the little irky noisy she does in her throat while talking to Ennis proves it for me.

She suspects certainly - shes much more a woman of the world than Alma.

She might have only come to that revelation in recent years but yeah she knew, I'm sure.

Br. Patrick:
I questioned for several viewings whether or not Lureen knew.   Then I managed to catch the last 15 minutes of the 4 leads on Oprah.  When Oprah asked Anne Hathaway whether or not she knew, she looked stunned and replied something to the effect of "couldn't you tell; wasn't it OBVIOUS?"   When Oprah replied that she didn't, Ann Hathaway replied something to the effect of "Oh my God I was disrespectful of Oprah, what would her mother say..., etc."  I have a copy of that PART of the Oprah show and Oprah was downright rude to Jake and Heath earlier in the show.  (Oprah only gave Brokeback Mountain 1/2 of that show...)

But anyway getting back to Lureen.  Now that I KNEW that she KNEW I really listened and watched intently.   It's very subtle and if you blink you'll miss it.   When Ennis tells Lureen that Brokeback Mountain was a real place that he and Jack had herded sheep on in 1963, Lureen's voice cracks and her eyes moisten.  It happens so fast that if you don't know it's there, you'll miss it like I did for the first 9 viewings.  Then she becomes aware for sure.  Seeing it makes her terse remarks to Ennis fit perfectly.   Maybe she had her doubts about his fidelity, but with another man?

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