i just watch ode to billy joe today because my mother and aunt talk me into it and and i be 13 and i have the big crush on robby benson ( in his young year of course ) . i be so shock at how the end turn out and but of course i know he would jump of the tallahatchie bridge from the song . i have to say and at the end i be cry a river and i really think this movie be great . i really think that because billie joe be drunk and he may not have realize the reality of what be go on when that man rap him ( in my opinion it be rape ) . i think he be just extremely ashamed because he know that be totally unacceptable in that time and very scared and do not know what to do . so and that be why i think he jump off the bridge . if you ever get a chance to see this movie and go for it . you would not be disappoint and trust me .