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Post by ilovejake on Nov 29, 2004 0:43:27 GMT -5
i'm new to this site, but i have seen the movie a countless number of times, been to the official website a few times, and I have read and re-read so many of the posts on this forum. i still have one question, and i apologize if it's already been discussed....but is there more to cherita's character? is there a greater point? i read the posts pertaining to donnie's name written on her book, and i agree that she is possibly there to show donnie that others outside his family/friends look up to and care for him. but she's always there, as if her presence stands for something. and the ear muffs. he takes then off and wears them. before that, she pulls one from her ear, as if over-hearing donnie and prof. monnetoff's conversation about time travel. she has to be significant to the film for some other reason, but i can't figure out why. not to mention the fact that she sits in front of the statue of the school mascott...as if she is the mascott for the movie. but that would be pretty lame, so i'm sure that's not it...i just can't think of anything else! Help!! i watched the end of the movie with the director's commentary, and when she is awake in bed during "mad world", he says something about how she finally has a moment of relief or something. that must mean something, but i don't want to sit through the entire movie with the commentary on. maybe i will but before i attempt it, can anyone help me? it would be GREATLY appreciated!!  thanks!! |
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Post by donniedarko666 on Dec 2, 2004 23:50:10 GMT -5
first of all [glow=green,2,300]WELCOME TO THE FORUMS[/glow] and u have made a veri gud point lol... i neva rele thought bout it
des
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Post by gretchen on Dec 9, 2004 15:40:24 GMT -5
awesome.
;D
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Post by ilovejake on Dec 10, 2004 21:20:59 GMT -5
haha...
wow you guys take this way too seriously.
what did you want me to add to that?
sorry if i don't spend all my free time checking the donnie darko site. guess when you DO have that much free time...
yeah forget it; i'll spare you.
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Post by gretchen on Dec 10, 2004 22:15:42 GMT -5
ilovejake, it wasn't directed to you lol
it was directed to "des"
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Post by greedy on Dec 11, 2004 19:12:16 GMT -5
just how pathetic dose some one have to be to diagree with them selves at least she waited more than ten minutes to respond to her post when i was ten and immaturee like that i did the same thing
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Post by greedy on Dec 13, 2004 9:35:53 GMT -5
cherita is that represintative of the typical teen life where your fears are magnified in this case a fear of love and getting an ear infection lol  |
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Post by Omnipotent on Jan 12, 2005 13:38:07 GMT -5
Can you explain the character of Cherita?
Richard Kelly: I like to call her my ‘Mike Yanagita.’ Remember Mike Yanagita from “Fargo?” He hits on Frances McDormand at the Radisson. They have Diet Cokes at the Radisson and he comes on to her. If the Coen Bros. didn’t have final cut, a studio executive would have demanded that they cut that scene because it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t contribute to the plot. But if you really pay attention to “Fargo,” that scene is really pivotal to Frances McDormand’s character because when she finds out that Mike Yanagita is completely lying about his wife dying, that it was a complete lie, she’s just shocked that she could have been lied to. She’s such a trustworthy person and it makes her go back to William H. Macy’s car lot to question him again. So the Mike Yanagita scene is actually really, really important on a character level. On a plot level, it’s superfluous and it’s just the Coen Bros. just being weird or self-indulgent maybe. But I think it’s a great pivotal scene for character reasons and I think that’s probably what they thought, too. Using that metaphor for Cherita Chen, she contributes nothing to the plot at all. She is extraneous and superfluous, but that moment where Donnie is wearing the earmuffs couldn’t exist were it not for Cherita Chen. That is a very important character moment.
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Post by gretchen on Jan 12, 2005 17:34:52 GMT -5
one of the best explanations for cherita on the board
lovely, omni
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Post by GrandpaDeath on Mar 10, 2005 15:05:31 GMT -5
Can you explain the character of Cherita? Richard Kelly: Cherita Chen ... contributes nothing to the plot at all. She is extraneous and superfluous, but that moment where Donnie is wearing the earmuffs couldn’t exist were it not for Cherita Chen. That is a very important character moment. Kelly seems to say that Cherita was essential to showing some quality in Donnie or some development, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what wearing her earmuffs means. (BTW: I thought they were headphones.) Could it symbolize the moment Donnie chooses to wear the crown of thorns, to sacrifice himself for the good of mankind, as Christ supposedly did? |
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Post by ProvidencePortal on Mar 11, 2005 9:00:39 GMT -5
I'll be damned if I can figure out what wearing her earmuffs means. My personal sense of it (and I think, the interpretation others have settled on), is that Cherita serves as a catalyst for two of Donnie's realization: 1) unseen love exists all around us -- Cherita secretly loves Donnie, and her feelings for him, along with her innocence, become metaphoric for God's love. It's there, even if you can't see it. And thus, he's not alone. 2) his responsibility to the people around him -- his ability to influence his environment (from behaving in a way that makes Cherita adore him to flooding the school and more) makes him responsible for that environment. I belive that the moment Donnie dons Cherita's earmuffs, he has decided he is loved, not alone, and that it is up to him to save the world. It's the point at which he doffs his stupid man suit and becomes the person better suited for the name Donnie Darko, sounding as it does "...like some kind of superhero or something." |
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Post by greedy on Mar 11, 2005 10:48:31 GMT -5
here here providance that truly an enlighting post
i have always thought of her as thethe represintation of the PU personally she is kinda off to the way side and he promisses her every thing will be alright affirming hisdedication to the PU
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Post by GrandpaDeath on Mar 11, 2005 17:03:06 GMT -5
I belive that the moment Donnie dons Cherita's earmuffs, he has decided he is loved, not alone, and that it is up to him to save the world. It's the point at which he doffs his stupid man suit and becomes the person better suited for the name Donnie Darko, sounding as it does "...like some kind of superhero or something." I buy that. Nice work, PP!  |
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Post by ProvidencePortal on Mar 14, 2005 8:51:35 GMT -5
I buy that. Nice work, PP! Thank you, GrandpaDeath -- and a second thanks for bringing up an interesting and unresolved topic. Look forward to what others may make of it ... |
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Post by Omnipotent on Mar 14, 2005 12:36:29 GMT -5
Awwwwww let's all gather around the bonfire and sing Kumbaya. |
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