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Post by sarahp13 on Jun 14, 2004 0:21:25 GMT -5
So every scene in a film is supposed to happen for a reason.
Why are there repeated scenes of people jumping on a trampoline, and why does Ms. Sparrow repeatedly go back and forth from her mailbox?
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Post by IIVII on Jun 14, 2004 11:29:50 GMT -5
Someone recently made a comment on how they belived the trampoline shots symbolize how fragile the tangent universe is. I also belive it shows us how innocent our lead roles are. The mailbox thing is put there as foreshadowing. Everytime time you see her walk to her little mail box you expect more and more that some crucial story element is going to come into play.
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Post by ElHeftismo25 on Jun 15, 2004 15:01:22 GMT -5
because she knows that a letter is coming for her from donnie, but she doesn't know when.
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Post by Captain Nodle on Jul 12, 2004 23:18:20 GMT -5
I believe the theory that Roberta Sparrow first went through the same exact thing as Donnie was going through, and she abandoned her path. She wrote the book so that anyone that came after her would know what to do, and that they had to...or they would "Die alone." So, from that theory, she had been waiting for someone to write her about it. She knew something was coming, but she just didn't know when. I hope that makes sense.
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Post by MoonageDaydream on Jul 16, 2004 20:45:52 GMT -5
I believe the theory that Roberta Sparrow first went through the same exact thing as Donnie was going through, and she abandoned her path. That makes perfect sense, I never realized that. Damn.
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Post by bloodandroses on Jul 19, 2004 18:52:21 GMT -5
I thought that maybe it had to do with Gretchen and Donnie's conversation about going back in time and taking away all the painful moments and filling them with something good (also mentioned in their project at school). I thought those trampoline scenes seemed to be moments of pure happiness and freedom and childishness (in a good way of course, notice that he was with his little sister in alot of them). That, actually is one of my theories on the ending, too. That the world did, in fact, end, and all of the pain and suffering and everything was taken away and replaced with moments like those. (Even if it's flawed, still a beautiful sentiment I think)
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Post by justme314 on Jul 20, 2004 14:57:52 GMT -5
i think the trampoline scenes are there to show the innocence. its just showing one of those moments you have in life where you forget about the major troubles in life and are just enjoying the moment. or it could be showing that there were simple moments in donnies life. and i dont remember if they just show one scene with donnie on it, but i'm pretty sure thats grechen with him not his sister.
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Post by bloodandroses on Jul 20, 2004 15:56:04 GMT -5
i think the scenes are depicting innocence (which is what i meant by childishness in a good way) too. What i was saying is that maybe those types of moments are what would be there in your memory if you erased all the bad. And maybe at the end, if the world did "end", it didn't really end. It was just that the coherent world went away and it was just a bunch of souls floating in a pool of memories. what do ya'll think?
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Post by Teilhard de Chardin on Jul 22, 2004 18:23:40 GMT -5
I think the question has already been answered, that the mailbox scenario is based upon Roberta having already avoided gods path and written the POTT, thus waiting for Donnies reply - she knew this day would come and has forever been waiting. The trampoline does seem to signify the fragility and mallubility of the universe, being subject to worm holes and other unseen forces. The trampoline accompanied with a bowling ball has long been used metaphorically to help people understand the theory of relativety.
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Post by Dougdgtolstoyyahoocom on Sept 1, 2004 22:29:32 GMT -5
Question Re: Roberta Sparrow theory, if she was once a living receiver but didn't fulfill her duty like Donnie, wouldn't that m,ean that her tangent universe would have collapsed and destroyed the primary universe, hence none of the movie's events would have happened in the 1st place?
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Post by Teilhard de Chardin on Sept 2, 2004 5:40:43 GMT -5
Well, im kinda thinking that Divine intervention occured while Roberta was still part of the church, and God told her all of this information and to write a book, basically the POTT, and to wait for a letter. So i guess thats why she left the church and started teaching science, because she was visited by God who told how to live her life, and she did that. However, if all of this divine intervention did occur fro Roberta, then why would she say that every living creature on this earth dies alone? Perhaps she was just being manipulated to say these things in the tangent universe?
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Post by justme314 on Sept 2, 2004 19:13:01 GMT -5
yeah adam thats what i was thinking, since its like the people in the tangent univ. do things that seem unsual and not normal to how they are. So i guess she was being manipulated to tell donnie about everyone dying alone to push him towards what he need to do.
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Post by dgtolstoyatyahooatcom on Sept 4, 2004 20:31:02 GMT -5
Great theories and responses. thanks!
Doug
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Post by Acidhartha on Sept 19, 2004 18:28:08 GMT -5
Hey Adam, could the key be in the wording? "Everyone in THIS earth dies alone." <- meaning with out Donnie's intervention, they will all die without God.
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Post by Teilhard de Chardin on Sept 20, 2004 17:52:03 GMT -5
Ah ha! I feel that your probably correct Acidhartha, it makes sense for her to say that now.
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