His Jack carries the role of expressing aloud what both men feel, Ennis being too proud or stubborn to admit to his emotions, and although this leaves him with
some occasionally awkward dialogue, Gyllenhaal always manages to avoid seeming trite.
Not exact matches
The music
occasionally, almost out of luck, sets the right mood, but most of the time just makes for
awkward dialogue scenes and a composition clash of sound and visuals.
They're not perfect, though —
occasionally it can be tough to judge spacing and which platforms can be used as proper footing, and foreground objects tend to look
awkward (particularly when layered against
dialogue boxes).