Sad, Beautiful, Tradgic, True Love....what happened to JACK??

Rating: 9/10 (4 February 2006)

An amazing movie. I completely loved this movie, forget that it is a "gay" love story and focus on the fact that it is a story about an unforgiving world that hates and is afraid of anything different. The characters had great depth and personality. I love the fact that the story spanned a great deal of Jack and Ennis's lives. Truly, truly tragic...but one thing bugs me...they never quite explain what exactly happens to Jack?!!? In the phone conversation that Ennis has w/ Jack's wife she seems visibly shaken when Ennis says that he is a good friend of Jack's. During the course of this conversation Jack's wife describes how Jack died. The movie then proceeds to cut to scenes of Jack being brutally beaten. Is this Ennis's imagination ( since his father showed him the dead body of another "gay cowboy" when he was a child) running wild? Or is this the movie showing us what really happened? The part where Jack is sitting outside the restaurant with that ladies husband and he tells Jack that he has a cabin or something out in the woods somewhere. This makes me think that somehow they were discovered and that Jack was beaten. SOMEONE SHED SOME LIGHT ON THIS. (yes straight guys like this movie too!!)