This scene also has a great parallel at the very end of the movie, when Ennis looks at his and Jack's shirts hanging in the trailer--and we see the world outside his window. This, now, is the only road *he* will ever know. Another link he feels to Jack--another reason for his "Jack, I swear...."
Like so many of you, I received my copy of BBM and watched it first thing this morning. I have been sobbing non-stop since, and I promised I would not do that anymore. This final scene of Ennis opening the closet door and seeing the shirts tears me apart, and I find myself wishing I could go to him and just hug him and tell him it is alright, as Jack did the last time they were together. I have this fear that Ennis will live the remainder of his life, a sad, broken man. I just want to do something to make him smile again, like he smiled for Jack at the campfire, so long ago on that mountain. I came across some beautiful lyrics to a song that are the most appropriate for Ennis I have ever heard. Please bear through them as you will be moved.
We all want to make a place in this world
We all want our voices to be heard
Everyone wants a chance to be someone
We all have dreams we need to dream
Sweeter than any star you can reach
Cause when you reach and find you found someone
You hold the world's most precious thing
The greatest gift that life can bring
When you look back and know you were loved.
You were loved by someone, touched by someone,
held by someone, meant something to someone,
loved somebody, touched somebody's heart along the way
you can look back and say, you were loved.
You can have diamonds in your hand
have all the riches in the land
but without love, you don't really have nothing
will somebody care that you're alive
will somebody trust you with their life
that is when you know that you have all you need
You hold the world's most precious gift
the finest treasure that there is
you can look back and know
you were loved.
So many roads that you can take
whatever way you go
don't take that road alone
it's better you should know.
You are loved by someone, touched by someone
held by someone, meant something to someone
loved somebody, touched somebody's heart along the way
you can look back and say,
you did OK, you were loved.
So remember to tell that special one, you were loved......Diane Warren
Jack loved you Ennis, and we all know you loved him too. Keep that love with you always.
Here I am crying all over again.