Me too!!!!! Sometimes I wonder whether I'd be sane by now if I didn't have you guys. I only know a couple of other people who've even seen the movie, and nobody is anywhere near similarly obsessed. I guess I would have a deeper understanding of what it must be like for Ennis, harboring a secret love but NEVER ABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! Thank god we don't have to go through that.
But also, I shudder to realize how much less I'd be getting out of the movie without you all. How many of the metaphors and subtleties and nuances would I have missed on my own? I might never have seen the hand holdin or heard the "hey, c'mere," might never have fully grasped the meaning of water or snow or wind, of beans vs. sheep vs. elk, of sky colors vs. earth tones, of the tar-speading scene, of all the bookends and echoes and overlapped words and ... I can tell you beyond a shadow of doubt that I would take the buckets and coffee pots for granted!
Thanks to all you insightful, intelligent, funny, clever, observant, expressive, thoughtful people!