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Flashbacks and Dozy Embraces
Front-Ranger:
How many of us will tell our life story and say "And then I saw BBM, and from there, everything changed"? I know I will!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: RouxB on April 22, 2006, 04:08:07 pm ---Isn't it strange when a random obsevation from someone can change your life? I am embracing the concept that the entire story is from Ennis's perspective. This, for me, goes hand-in-hand with Annie Proulx comments about stories not being finished until the reader reads and intepretes it based on his or her own life experiences and beliefs. I'm thinking that one of the reasons I have a hard time letting go of the movie and the story-perhaps many of us-is because I haven't "finished" it-and I am a person who needs closure. The Ennis flashback interpretation allows me to finish the story based on my experiences and my needs. Hmmmm...
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Lack of closure is definitely one big reason this movie is so haunting. That, and that every time you see it, you have to go through the whole tormenting process again: starting out happy and hopeful and then taking that long inevitable helpless slide into despair. You wish it could end differently this time. You want to yell at the screen and stop it from happening the way it does. But you can never do anything about it.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: RouxB on April 22, 2006, 03:26:32 pm ---Ohhhh, I think that concept traveled through my consciousness once. Are you saying the entire Brokeback Mountain story is told from the perspective of Ennis (please say yes)?
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It may have been in earlier versions rouxB, but afraid not. Most of the published short story is Ennis' POV, but there are parts that are Alma's POV and Jack's POV. Obviously the 'flashback' hug is Jack's POV. Ennis could not have known that's how he felt, nor did Ennis know that Alma finally felt she was 'wasting her time' with Ennis.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 22, 2006, 05:17:26 pm ---How many of us will tell our life story and say "And then I saw BBM, and from there, everything changed"? I know I will!!
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I will too, darlin'. You can bet on it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 22, 2006, 08:15:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: RouxB on April 22, 2006, 03:26:32 pm ---Ohhhh, I think that concept traveled through my consciousness once. Are you saying the entire Brokeback Mountain story is told from the perspective of Ennis (please say yes)?
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It may have been in earlier versions rouxB, but afraid not. Most of the published short story is Ennis' POV, but there are parts that are Alma's POV and Jack's POV. Obviously the 'flashback' hug is Jack's POV. Ennis could not have known that's how he felt, nor did Ennis know that Alma finally felt she was 'wasting her time' with Ennis.
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Speaking about the movie only, I agree the POV switches back and forth. But I do think Ennis POV slightly dominates, even in the film. It's why it seemed appropriate that Heath be nominated for BA and Jake be up for BSA.
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