I will have to come back and have a heart-to-heart with Jack a bit later, once I've gathered my thoughts...
...I had a fair idea of what to say before I came in here & got hypnotized by Paul's siggie. ;)
Think about it. You two can hang out together. In just a short time, you might convince him to get divorced. He'd still be close to his girls, so he wouldn't have that as an excuse. Even if he works all the time, there would be nothing to prevent you two from going out for a beer once a week. You can convince him that he will be happy with you. You can make him forget about Rich and Earl. In time, you might make him believe that there's nothing wrong with two guys living together. But you need to make that move. It's the only thing that will get the ball rolling. I know you can do it!I just now watched their last argument followed by the dozy embrace scene and it struck me how much Ennis really belongs to Jack - body and soul. His whole life revolves around Jack and I really felt that if Jack only had just pushed him a little bit more, he would have surrendered. How could he not have?
But then, another part of my brain says that it would have been impossible either way. I don´t know. I guess the conflict in my thinking is that "open space" between what I wish to happen and what I think is possible.
Sometimes I think what I wish could have happened really does flavor my interpretations a lot.Hi Amanda! Yes, the same goes for me. But I often think about what Annie Proulx has said as well - that Brokeback ultimately is a story about a homophobic society. With that in mind, I can't imagine a happy ending because it would have changed the essence of the story. Because of that I also find it very hard to offer Jack advice on what to do, because for the story to maintain its essence, its message, he has to possess the qualities he has. He has to commit the errors that he does. If he would suddenly have left his wife and moved to Wyoming (as I often wish he had), the story would change too much and I doubt it would have had the same emotional impact on us. It somehow comes back to the fact that even though I wish they could have found a way to live together, I also know, that if they had, it would have been a completely different movie.