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Characters, Quotes & Scenes / Re: “Water Walking Jesus”
« Last post by choompty on Sep 05, 2024, 01:01 PM »Thank you!! 

I see it as one of many miscommunications between Jack and Ennis. Jack, being the overly hopeful person he is, interpreted the message of Ennis's divorce as a possible turning point in their relationship. Without his family holding him back so much, there's a chance they could give it a real shot, right?
Jack has always been willing to leave his life as early as 1967, when at that point he already has a wife and a kid. It might be that since Ennis is so closed off, Jack just can't understand his logic. It's one of the most important scenes in the movie for sure, really highlighting the difference between the characters.
I won’t say my interpretation is the correct one, but I always saw it as Ennis admitting that he was a virgin. There’s a million little bits and pieces to the scene for me, like Jack probably implying that they were sinners because of their sexuality (or at least regarding himself), and that maybe Ennis’ response to his comment made him enough confidence to act upon his feelings during TS1. All in all, I saw that line as Ennis saying he was a virgin as they both came from religious upbringings and premarital sex would have been a sin. Especially when we see that Alma got pregnant almost immediately after being married (if they were messing around before that, she probably would have gotten pregnant before they were married). Thats how I always took the line, but I’m sure there’s other ways of reading it, too!Oh I like this interpretation! Since Ennis is estranged from his family I’m not really sure he would be bound by the restrictions surrounding premarital sex but Alma would be. It could also be that Jack meant he ‘sinned’ by having sex with other men but Ennis hadn’t…. yet. That flirtatious wink lol.