Paris, Texas

I watched this and I couldn’t stop but admire the cinematography the beautiful wide angle shots with Travis slowly walking out or in of the frame the use of framework. A man trying to run away from his problems thinking going to the place he got conceived in would help him sort of be reborn from his mistakes that he knew he made with his family, the family he broke thru jealousy and manipulation just cause he didn’t trust his partner she worried for him at first but the resentment stayed until she ran away.  I find it interesting how in the monologue he said Jane would try and run away in the night which I saw Travis doing with Walt at least at the beginning any time Walt would take his eye off him he would just run use the opportunity to try and get away probably in fear of having to face his reality head on again. The Monologue tho the fucking monologue had me bawling my eyes out all the way thru they end from the raw emotion both actors show and just the use of the physical wall separating them finally getting to say what they wanted for years slowly seeing the wall disappear from the shot as he told more of the story.  The line “I use to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.” Just dug deep cause it’s very much a point I'm at during the moment. He went from raging and running away hoping to bring this image of a family that he had back, when he first sees Jane you can see the jealousy come back from that anger held in but Travis finally does the ultimate sacrifice he confesses his wrongs he knows he needs to bring his family back but it can’t be with him he broke this and even tho he wants to be a part of it he knows he has to go. I also just realized after thinking about it all day it feels like the jealousy he could’ve learned from his dad when Travis was talking about how “you wouldn’t bring a rich lady here” and he described his mom as not being a rich lady but his dad believed she was every time he made the Paris Texas joke he would believe it more and more sounds to me like he didn’t have a good father figure and he unknowingly got those attributes and he repeated it with Jane. Plus all the talk about mother figures Travis brings up his mother a lot, the guy yelling on the bridge mentions a mom too felt like foreshadowing to having a strong mother/son bond