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BBM-Cat:
Hello, I realize this may be old territory - if so, please just point me in the direction of a thread that may already discuss this....but, since seeing BBM for the first time one week ago - one question (of many) haunts me....

-What is the conjectured time of the year at the Lake Scene? What I'm really asking is how many months was Jack deceased before Ennis came to know of it?

moremojo:
I don't have the published screenplay in front of me right now, but I'm pretty sure that the Lake Scene is set in 1983, before August ("Whatever happened to August?") It doesn't look bitterly cold, so I'm assuming that the sequence takes place in the spring. Ennis gets his postcard returned before November, the month of the hopeful, deferred rendezvous, and learns that not only has Jack died, but that his body has been cremated and a stone set up in Texas. Clearly months have passed, but exactly how many is unclear.

Again, I'm culling this from memory, without the aid of the published screenplay. Still, I hope it is of some help.

injest:
according to the book the lake scene took place in May of 83...and the postcard had to have been in October...and at that point Jack had been dead long enough for several months to go by...so he died sometime in late May, June or July...

injest:
the interesting thing to me is how long he waited before he went up to the Twist's for the ashes...in the movie it seems he went right away...but in the book, it says no..he went the following spring...

injest:
it also says that after he went to the Twists is when Jack started appearing in his dreams...

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