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Subject: re - death and his threats
Date: Jun 28, 2002
Re. Death -
what we figgered (me and my limbo-theory partner) was that:
if you're good = if you play your part correctly, then everything will fall back into place;
then i'll see you one more time = when you die
if you're bad = don't play it correctly
then i'll see you 2 more times = less clear. but either another chance to put it back, or perhaps something more ominous.
i also puzzled about his appearance in the dinner party. on the one hand, Adam *didn't* see him.
on the other, wtf was he doing there? :)
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Re: wow
I agree with Rosanna when she says "wow". I'm totally impressed with what you folks saw in this movie, which I otherwise would have found baffling. I'm intrigued by the possibility that the neighbor who comes over to get her stuff is Diane's real ex-lover and there is no Camilla. But I'm not convinced that's right.
Anyway, I have these additional observations/questions:
1. Note the bits of what we're called the "reality" scenes that creep into the "fantasy" scenes in altered form, just like bits of your life will pop up in your dreams. For example:
-- "This is the girl" - that's what the director is told to say when he sees Camilla, and that's what Diane tells the hit man when she hands him her headshot.
-- The name Betty on the waitress's name tag.
-- "We don't stop here" - Camilla says that to the drivers at the beginning and Diane says it at the end.
2. After the two women go to see Diane Selwyn's neighbor and the neighbor doesn't recognize Rita, Betty says, "We know you're not Diane Selwyn." Actually, strangely enough, the neighbor hasn't recognized Betty as Diane Selwyn. In a dream/fantasy, this is conceivable -- but what's really interesting about it, I think, is that it's one of many instances in which Betty projects her own confusion onto "Rita." The one who actually has amnesia is Betty/Diane, but she makes the fictional Rita the one who can't remember what happened.
3. The cowboy -- somebody said he represents death. Maybe. He says "If you're good, you'll see me one more time; if you're bad, you'll see me two more times." I don't pretend to understand this. (Any suggestions?) But I do think I saw him in the background at the dinner/engagement party. That's one time. But why was he there? (That was a "reality" sequence, apparently -- so maybe he's just a peripherally perceived character who later crept into the fantasy?)
-- Joshua
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Comment index:
wow from Rosanna, Jun 10, 2002
Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
Re: wow from Tashtigo707, Jun 17, 2002
» re - death and his threats « from yaghvali, Jun 28, 2002
PCP from Kilgore Trout, Sep 1, 2002
Aunt??? from HugeElvis, Oct 14, 2002
wow from Rosanna, Jun 10, 2002
Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
Re: wow from Tashtigo707, Jun 17, 2002
» re - death and his threats « from yaghvali, Jun 28, 2002
PCP from Kilgore Trout, Sep 1, 2002
Aunt??? from HugeElvis, Oct 14, 2002
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