can one ever be totally objective when circumstances center around feelings from the heart?
I don't quite understand all this anger toward Ennis.
It's alright to say that Jack has got his tough time with Ennis by being "rejected". Yet rejection seems to be arguable in this impossible relationship.
I like to think both of them are struggling the best they could to keep their relationship alive.
When Ennis said "if you can't fix if...", it's exactly the way this couple is going to work their way out.
Let's face it:
Ennis has always wanted children and it's why he is torn apart between his responsibility to wards her girls and his love for Jack. And I think we can see he was not rejecting Jack on the second truck scene.
He was just torn apart between his desire and his duty.
How can anyone forget the first ever heartbreaking scene of this film when Ennis turn into that alley street, when his pain was so strong to see Jack driving away, that he actually felt sick. So sick that he could not stand, a strong big man like him! There is no word to express my sadness whenever I recall this. His initial indifference to let Jack go after their summer job is just part of his self discovering. And he did tell Jack that it took him more than a year to realize what really happened on that day. But then it was all too late by then.
From these and many other points I fell that Ennis is like some of you said a very inarticulate person trapped and haunted by the memory of the dead man he saw when he was a child. Without help, he will never be able to give Jack more than he could. And if anyone feels that it's always too little and too late, then I suggest you to think again. And unless you have experienced the same level of desperation, I cannot see how you can be so negative about either of these tortured souls.
marius