The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Meryl]

After many years of holding back his frustration and longing, Jack loses his hesitancy and tells Ennis how hard it is to live by his rules: "You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

[southendmd]

In writing the dozy embrace sequence, Annie states she was trying to describe the inchoateness of Jack and Ennis's feelings.

[Fran]

Ennis shows his jumpiness about breaking the news to Jack about August by the way he rubs the door handle of Jack's pickup truck.

def. = nervousness

[Toast]

When you watch Ennis reacting to Jack, sometimes you think Jack is his lover, and sometimes you think Jack is his brother.

[southendmd]

"The most difficult scene was the paragraph where, on the mountain, Ennis holds Jack and rocks back and forth, humming, the moment mixed with childhood loss and his refusal to admit he was holding a man. This paragraph took forever to get right, and I played Charlie Haden's and Pat Metheny's Spiritual, from their album Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories)  uncountable times, trying to get the words. I was trying to write the inchoate feelings of Jack and Ennis, the sad impossibility of their liaison, which for me was expressed in that music. To this day, I cannot hear that track without Jack and Ennis appearing before me." Annie Proulx.

{This is the dozy embrace in slow motion set to the above piece of music.}

[memento]

It took Ennis their entire time together to get up the nerve to tell Jack that he couldn't meet in August.

[Fran]

Jack expresses the onerousness of the situation he finds himself in when he tells Ennis:  "I'm not you.  I can't make it on a couple of high-altitude fucks once or twice a year.  (pause)  You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch.  (pause)  I wish I knew how to quit you."

But things haven't been any easier for Ennis, and he lets Jack know it when he replies:  "Then why don't you?  Why don't you let me be?  It's because of you, Jack, that I'm like this.  I'm nothin'.  I'm nowhere."

def. = oppressiveness

[Toast]

Jack compares Ennis's schedule to the Pope's.  Picking a time to be together has become "a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

=compliment= Paul
Annie/Ang really captured the music.
The ticking watch and embers are there too.
Beautiful.

[memento]

After all was said and done, Jack and Ennis weren't able to resolve anything. In the words of Proux: "... they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they’d said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved."

[southendmd]

At the end of the dozy embrace, Jack watches Ennis leaving with such tenderness. There is a juxtaposition as the next scene shows older Jack and his steely gaze, now watching Ennis drive away.