In the film, Jack lives in Texas, and Ennis lives in Wyoming, so Jack presumably gets killed in Texas in the 1980s (since the film begins in 1964 and the affair spans two decades -- which we know because Ennis's daughters are already grown up, and one of them is ready to get married at the end of the film). Setting the facts about this particular film aside, though, do queers have a 67% chance of dying by gay-bashing and a 33% chance of dying of AIDS in the real world, as the gay-themed Oscar contenders represent? If that were true, being queer would be practically a death sentence.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>