Topic: The "Let Me Be" scene

[Krispera]

I saw.. I knew I was not crazy, I watched it 10times.. something is wrong with this scene. Let me explain.





We see they shout, cry. After we see them hug eachother outside (Look at the picture)

Jake had no beard, he did have one when they shouted at eachother.

After this hug scene finish.. we see Jake, mad (just look at his eyes) with the same clothes, with the same beard and the truck of Ennis is leaving.



Is it a "dream" of Jake? Maybe someone already made a post about this but I don't know.

[Valandil Eluch]

that was a flash back back on brokeback mountain the only time in which they shared their love and sexless hunber nad if you check jack didn't have the same coat!!! so those are different times

[Krispera]

that was a flash back back on brokeback mountain the only time in which they shared their love and sexless hunber nad if you check jack didn't have the same coat!!! so those are different times

Ahhhhhh now it's better, thank you verry much  !

Wow.. they cut this scene so easily that I thought it was "in the present"

[Valandil Eluch]

Don't worry i know that because i read the short story otherwise i would be lost  

[boo_boo]

It was confusing to me at first too.  I finally noticed they were wearing the clothes from the herding scenes.

[keren_b]

That what makes this scene even more heartbreaking - the sharp contrast between how things used to be (the flashback with all it's love and tenderness) and what has become of that. In the flashback when Ennis is leaving on his horse, Jack looks after him with such a loving expression, his eyes are full of love. Then you go back to the present, Ennis is leaving in his truck and Jack looks after him and his expression is so sad, tired, bitter. he's defeated. past versus present. it's heartbreaking.
 :'( :'( :'(

[filazahies]

That what makes this scene even more heartbreaking - the sharp contrast between how things used to be (the flashback with all it's love and tenderness) and what has become of that. In the flashback when Ennis is leaving on his horse, Jack looks after him with such a loving expression, his eyes are full of love. Then you go back to the present, Ennis is leaving in his truck and Jack looks after him and his expression is so sad, tired, bitter. he's defeated. past versus present. it's heartbreaking.
 :'( :'( :'(

You stayed it perfectly, keren_b. So greatly directed by Ang Lee and so fantastically played by Jake Gyllenhall. That changing look from one scene to the other, so sweet in the past and, as you said, "so sad, tired and bitter" in the present. AMAZING!!
This is my favourite scene from the movie :'( :'( :'( :'(

[Koka]

I just re-read BBM yesterday ( probably for the zilliont time ) and I started crying during that 'scene'. it was just so well written, so perfectly described and the movie scene sure did that part of the book justice. it really is such a heartwrenching scene. It just made me want to be held the way jack was held.

and jake was so perfect in that scene so....I can't even find the words to describe his perfomance. his eyes say it all. when you look into his eyes you see- love. love in its essential form. pure, unconditional love. and longing....no words needed.

GOD HOW I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!

I reckon I'm gonna go watch it on divx just now gotta go get some tissues first.  :'(

[forbiddenlovers]

When I watched again last night, when it came across that final flashback scene of "you're sleeping on your feet...." I had tears in my eyes. Never that I can remember did a love come across so much in a movie as it did in this scene. It's a movie I know, but darn it if Jake and Heath didn't act so well to make you think of how much in love they were in that scene, or at leas the beginning of that love. 
I wish we could have seen that scene when it occured instead of in a flashback when we know what happens to Jack after this scene. But, I'm glad it's where it is, because you see the love as it started, then you see what it has become and the toll it has taken.

Ann

[TJ]

That flashback was in the "Let be, let be" section of the story. It was not "let me be" as such.

In the way that I read the story, the scene that Jack rememberd was not thought of when they were together at the trailhead parking lot the last time together. It took place sometime later.

When Annie Proulx shows that time has elapsed in her writings, she puts a triple-line spacing between paragraphs. After the paragraph which ends with "nothing resolved," there is that triple-line spacing and then it goes into what Jack remembered.

"Let be, let be" can mean at least two things. 1) Jack decided to continue his difficult relationship with Ennis and do absolutely nothing about it. 2) Jack decided to quit Ennis so that Ennis would let him be and Jack would no longer be on the short lease that Ennis kept him on.

In regard to Ennis wanting Jack to "Let me be" in the movie, that is a different story; at least, it's not in the book.