Bookends!

[fernly]

Ennis' headlong, irreversible fall is bookended by...

(and one of the things that precipitates that fall appears in the bookend, too)

[brokebackjack]

The scvene of the sheep ASCENDING?

[brokebackjack]

i am so dense at timers.....

[fernly]

A guess:

Ennis’s headlong, irreversible fall, precipitated by Ennis’s punching Jack (then spitting)
bookended by...
Ennis’s collapse at the lake, preceded by Ennis’s (spitting then) shoving Jack

That works too.

What I was thinking of was Ennis' and Alma's headlong 'fall' down the steep snow-covered hill, the only time they look happy, but the path of their relationship already irreversible and hopeless.
And snow was the precipitating factor in Ennis' and Jack's fall from Brokeback.

[serious crayons]

Good one, Fern! I was thinking of the bookend to his headlong, irreversable fall as being when he ascends the staircase at the Twist house. But it's true that in this movie where there's snow, there's something going on. 

[fernly]

Good one, Fern! I was thinking of the bookend to his headlong, irreversable fall as being when he ascends the staircase at the Twist house. But it's true that in this movie where there's snow, there's something going on. 

Maybe we need a thread about snow as a symbol...