Charlie not eating?
Do we ever find out why Charlie never ate anything during their meals together?
TIA
Probably coz he was serving up cooked lumps of the housekeeper?
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I would like to know too. Very strange.
shareIf you put aside the oddness of his gesture not to eat, and if we were to take it rationally and simply, Charlie did not eat his dinner for two simple reasons: either:
(1) Charlie didn't like eating what he cooked. Some people don't eat what they cook. I know cooks who won't eat the stuff they prepare, not because they dislike it, but because they are more excited about preparing the food rather than eating; or
(2) Charlie just wasn't hungry that night.
I think maybe his intention was to give them the creeps by not eating. Or, like I said, he just wasn't hungry at all.
It is not rational nor simple to take anything in a story as just rational and simply explained away. The story isn't about people who don't like their own cooking or people who aren't hungry. Everything in a story is there for a reason. Either the detail is symbolic, moves the story forward or is a red herring. Nothing is incidental. In real life if you go into the office of a minister and there is a vodka bottle in his desk drawer, it could mean nothing at all. In real life it could mean something simply and rationally explained away but in a story it means something important like he is a closeted alcoholic, hypocrite, or he is hiding it for someone else or someone planted it there to implicate him. In real life it could mean absolutely nothing. So the fact Charlie failed to eat anything while others did, is pertinent to the story. It wasn't just that he wasn't hungry, or doesn't like to eat the food he cooks. If those were the reasons he didn't eat the story would include details to point us in that direction.
shareDo we ever find out why Charlie never ate anything during their meals together?
He displays several vampiric qualities during the film (he's seductive, creepy, mysterious, wants to make her into what he is), so maybe not eating is a metaphor. Vampires don't eat. (To be clear, I'm not saying he's literally a vampire!) Just a possibility...
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Tell your god to ready for blood. share
Indeed, and he also wanted both Evelyn and India's permission to stay in the house.
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Sorry to necropost but I just saw the film yesterday. I think you two nailed it. I think it is an allusion to vampires.
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