It's a powerful article, and makes some very good points. It makes me think and question my feelings too, and that can only be good. Only when we think we know everything about a subject are we in danger. When we're able to question and doubt ourselves and everyone else, and keep on searching and learning are we being true to ourselves. That's my belief.
The only thing I wish he'd touched on is the poverty of the emotional lives of so many of the characters, even the ones who seem open, like Lureen, aren't really expressing their real selves. Ennis is so shut-up, boxed-in repressed that it's agonizing to watch him struggle to express himself. Jack seems much more open, but when Ennis went to Jack's childhood home and met that poor, emotionally starved woman living that gray, hopeless life, I wondered how he had managed to be able to express his feelings at all. It seems to me that many of us are taught from an early age to hide our feelings and not show emotions, and that is magnified beyond belief by the world in which those two men were born and had to live. I'm not sure this makes sense. I'm still trying to come to terms with all the things that movie made me feel.
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Date: 2006-02-06 05:36 pm (UTC)The only thing I wish he'd touched on is the poverty of the emotional lives of so many of the characters, even the ones who seem open, like Lureen, aren't really expressing their real selves. Ennis is so shut-up, boxed-in repressed that it's agonizing to watch him struggle to express himself. Jack seems much more open, but when Ennis went to Jack's childhood home and met that poor, emotionally starved woman living that gray, hopeless life, I wondered how he had managed to be able to express his feelings at all. It seems to me that many of us are taught from an early age to hide our feelings and not show emotions, and that is magnified beyond belief by the world in which those two men were born and had to live. I'm not sure this makes sense. I'm still trying to come to terms with all the things that movie made me feel.