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Symbolic? Or What the Project Really Was?

posted 15 years ago by creaturefeeture
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I felt that "Camera" aka Hope Davis was trying to portray herself as (symbolically) life. Am I way off? Hear me out. The idea that she just appears and Guy has to accept her whether he likes it or not. He asks her many questions about herself and gets no answers. He can either fight her or embrace her. In life we are presented with reality and have no choice but to accept it as is. We ask questions like what is reality? What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? etc, and get no answers. The questions always linger and sometimes we chose to ignore them and live out our lives normally while other times we chose to confront them and keep asking questions we know will never be answered. Maybe I'm just stretching this out but if anyone agrees please elaborate :).

Or if anyone else has theories on what Davis was trying to do, please share.

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[–] TheMan18 (12511) 2 years ago

So Hope Davis camera operator character was meant to be a metaphor for life? Interesting.

And is that partially why the man despite his reluctance wasn't able to fully confront her and scare her off, despite also using a fire extinguisher against her in self defense (!) or even attempt to run away or call the police etc, and this is why she insisted and not say because she was a contracted reporter or maybe forced into it against her will by the Mafia or something?

Even though also, he almost does a truly terrible deed to her in the end (although even an attempt at it was no doubt bad, and whatever her flaws, she did NOT deserve it in any way), and I was against him no doubt there. I wonder also - did he die at the end?

P.S. I couldn't help but also draw comparisons with the ending to Abel Ferrara's film "The Blackout" (1997) especially how that film's character also somehow goes to swim in the sea after doing or potentially doing a terrible deed, and also to a female character. Not to mention, both this film's main male star (Vincent D'Onofrio) and The Blackout (Matthew Modine) previously both starred in Stanley Kubrick's classic "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) movie, and both films coincidentally were released at a time where for a brief period before his death in 1999, Stanley Kubrick himself was still alive.