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Am I Nuts???
henrypie:
I can spoon in bed, but definitely not on the ground. Uch, everything is harder on the ground. Of course.
IF Jack's arm is reaching back, it's a bookend to his very first reach-around, isn't it.
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: henrypie on April 14, 2006, 10:01:44 am ---I can spoon in bed, but definitely not on the ground. Uch, everything is harder on the ground. Of course.
IF Jack's arm is reaching back, it's a bookend to his very first reach-around, isn't it.
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That's exactly why I checked the scene out, Sarah.. There's lots of little parallels throughout the movie and the You Tube clip is probably the lightest I've seen either that scene or the 1st tent scene. It made me wonder though...
littleguitar:
This thread is so interesting to me because I've always had a completley different take on that shot... though it looks like I'm in the minority, LOL!
That shot always seemed incredibly sad to me, even the first time I saw it, before I knew what was coming after it. You guys are all right, they do look very peaceful and incredibly comfortable and intimate with each other, and there is no frown on Ennis's face... so I don't know what it is about it, but it always made me sad, like there was some tension between them in that shot, like they've slept like this before but there is something off about it tonight. Maybe it's the fact that it comes right after "the truth is, sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" which is, for me, the saddest line in the film. Also, we always get that shot of the outside of the tent with that light blinking far off in the distance and I always get uncomfortable when I see that light, like they are being watched. Then we go to them the next day packing the trucks and looking very unhappy.
I know this has been a lot of rambling, but the point of it all is is that that scene had the opposite effect for me, it just made me very very sad, I thought in that scene that you could just feel their time together was drawing to a close. We know it's their last night together during that specific trip, but we feel that it's their last night together period. Does that make sense to anyone?
amh:
--- Quote from: littleguitar on April 14, 2006, 11:10:55 am ---Does that make sense to anyone?
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Sure it does! And actually, I think it's sad, too, for the same reasons you mentioned. That's the thing about this movie - there are very few scenes where the viewer experiences one single emotion, or where there is no conflict of emotions. Practically even scene evokes feelings that toggle back and forth between love found, love lost, love enjoyed, and love never fully experienced, etc. The entire movie is complex like that, just like their relationship, and this little itty bitty scene is no exception. That's probably part of the reason it sticks with us so.
ednbarby:
I concur, Ann Marie - the very complexity of every scene is why it sticks with us. It doesn't tell us what to think in any of it. That's the genius of it and ultimately why I love it so much. There's nothing I hate more in film or television, as I've said many times, than being patronized and/or manipulated. This film never does either of those things. And for that reason above all I am eternally grateful to everyone involved, most especially to the master, Ang Lee.
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