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Originally Posted by sparky
Ditto this. The scene is an image that is in the mind of Ennis. I am eagerly awaiting the DVD, only because I want to freeze frame this awful scene and see if Jack had a mustache or not. Ultimately, it does not matter what happened to Jack. The point is that Ennis' fear of what he envisioned happened to Jack is what most prevented them from being together.
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That was my initial impression, too. I really shouldn't be so quick to second-guess myself.
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Let me also say that after I have immersed myself in this story and this movie for the last seven weeks of my life, I have stumbled upon something I had not thought about in a long time.
PART OF ME IS CONSUMED WITH ANGER.
I am so f*cking sick and tired of the fact that so many people have to lie about their feelings. The fact that I have had to wait until I am 40 years old to see a love story on film about two men I can relate to creates a burning rage in me so immense that I hardly know what to do with it. I see people still talking about being gay as something that is somehow evil and wrong and having witnessed the psychic and physical destruction created by those attitudes I feel a simmering, incendiary resentment that could consume everything around me with it's force. It makes me want to break things, crush things, and be violent. It's not the movie. It's forty years of second best treatment, put down jokes, insulting television characters, hateful religions, and accumulated sadness for all the people out there who have suffered needlessly. So far, I have not encountered anything out there in the world along the lines of a jackass in a movie theatre making nasty jokes, and I have not witnessed any outright harrassment of gay people. But, I tell you what, God help the person who does this in front of me. God help them.
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I've been feeling this, too, brought out in part by seeing the movie. I've found myself thoroughly unable to watch television anymore because people like me are so rarely represented, and when they are, it's something like Will & Grace, which is so mind-numbingly stupid that words can't even begin to describe it. Say what you will about Queer As Folk, but at least it portrayed gay people as having real feelings, even if it painted a very narrow picture of what we're like.
Eh...I started to post some other stuff here, but it would probably piss off most, if not all, of the heterosexuals on the board, so I'll keep it to myself.
Suffice it to say that I find myself with practically no tolerance for the way that gay people are made to feel as if we don't exist.