Jimmy Durante?


What is the appeal of this (by then dead) performer?

Why is he featured/worshipped so much in this movie?

What does he have to do with the plot/lesson(s) that this movie is (allegedly) trying to teach its' audience?

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First of all he's one great American Classic but I guess his song helps Celeste realize her humanity by showing how common it is to want to be at a place where u can't stay at and having to deal with hard decisions. In her planet everything is easy and uncomplicated and she becomes a human when she becomes tangled in all human things, just like Jimmy.

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The only reason I can think that the memory of Jimmy Durante is featured in the movie, is the appropriate lyrics of his song to Celeste's predicament on Earth:-

"Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and then you had the feeling that you wanted to stay."

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