I don´t know why,but often I think of Ennis and Jack when young,in the beguinning of their relationship,when they´re only friends and they´re opening to each other little by little,when they gave each other the tenderness and confidence they needed from their childhood.I suppose because everything was allright between them and their tragedy hadn´t began.
Yeah, that's my favorite part of the movie, too. It's the part when each take on a bit of the other - Ennis becoming more open and confident, willing to stand up for what he and Jack needs, instead of being bullied by Aguierre - Jack becoming a better cowboy, learning from Ennis what his father never taught him. And they both become more protective of each other.
The later parts as they grow older, Ennis becomes too absorbed in his own troubles with Elma, with money that during their ride across the river, he looked miserable instead of the happy excited person when they first met. Jack was becoming frustrated with the increasingly infrequent rendez-vous, thinking it was Ennis losing interest, not understanding the troubles Ennis was going through. By the river, when Ennis asked Jack if things with Laureen were normal, Jack had no idea what Ennis was feeling, in spite of the divorce. In a way, Jack was beginning to drift away himself, having found an outlet in Mexico.
Yeah, when I think of Ennis and Jack, it is in the summer of '63 or four years later, when they were in the motel, or by the river, Ennis looking up into heaven. Pure and untroubled.
But when I think of Ennis by himself, it is always the last few scenes. Those scenes of Ennis by himself are my favorite, to see his transformation from "I can't stand this any more Jack" to "Jack I swear!"
