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bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
Excellent assessment, atz, on how the light-colored hats surround Jack and black ones surround Ennis. Sometimes it takes some analyzing to make up for the parts in the film where Jack and Ennis are apart and through the movie's symbols and nuances, you know that what you're watching is an Ennis and Jack scene.

And I like the interpretation of the man walking by as a reinforcement of Ennis repressing his feelings. That's thought-provoking.

fernly:
Another poster, wish I could remember who, noticed that...
 In yet another scene with Ennis confronting feelings he doesn't know what to do with, in the bus station...
in the background there are two men, one in a black hat and one in a white,  buying tickets to travel apparently together. The poster's interpretation was that this was a reminder of what Jack wanted for the two of them, being together, moving on somewhere, in public, together.
And I think maybe it shows what Ennis is coming to have in the back of his mind, since he'd ended things with Cassie, maybe he was getting ready to give something more to Jack, and it's already too late.

Brown Eyes:
Heya fernly,
I love that detail in the bus station!  I think it's one of the best black & white hat moments.  I also love the moment when Ennis is dancing with Cassie (while Alma Jr. watches) and the only other couple on the dance floor is a man with a black hat with a woman covered in tattoos.  I see that as another black-hat reminder of Jack.

And, thanks  bbm_stitchbuffyfan.  :)

starboardlight:

--- Quote from: fernly on April 26, 2006, 06:36:01 pm ---Another poster, wish I could remember who, noticed that...
 In yet another scene with Ennis confronting feelings he doesn't know what to do with, in the bus station...
in the background there are two men, one in a black hat and one in a white,  buying tickets to travel apparently together. The poster's interpretation was that this was a reminder of what Jack wanted for the two of them, being together, moving on somewhere, in public, together.
And I think maybe it shows what Ennis is coming to have in the back of his mind, since he'd ended things with Cassie, maybe he was getting ready to give something more to Jack, and it's already too late.

--- End quote ---

that was me. yay! someone read that post. hardly anyone responded to that. i thought i was alone in seeing the significant of it.
any who. i loved seeing those two men every times. a hint that may "real sweet life" may have been possible after all.

fernly:
Hey Nipith,
Your observation was wonderful! Should have said so at the time. It's enriched my (many) subsequent viewings of the film.
It's another of the many if onlys...
if only Ennis had understood, put a name to, and done something about the feelings that drove him to his knees in the alley.
if only Ennis had lifted his head, looked beyond Riverton (instead of back through the fear that started when he was 9 and was reinforced god knows how many times in his daily life), and seen two men doing what they needed to do to have a life together.

Fern

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