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What's with the stupid white ball

posted 18 years ago by oprtvdog
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what is she gonna play pool on a giant pool table

[–] missjnr 18 years ago

haha...what if your fear WAS a giant pool table! lol

Some other bizarre fears my boyfriend and I created tonight that would just make this movie hilarious are as follows:

-sunlight
-outdoors
-being rich
-fame
-clouds
-giant robots
-trees
-germs
-houses
-babies.

[–] continuum_ 18 years ago

OMG.

i had to reply, to tell you i just laughed out loud for about 5 minutes thanks to you.

i'm also alone and in my room, therefore making my sister think i'm crazy (for the really loud laughter).

THANK YOU.

[–] missjnr 18 years ago

Glad that you liked it :) We thought of all these and more during the whole movie...we were just so unamused that we made it funny for ourselves

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[–] catonryewithmayo 9 years ago

I know this is old, but those are basically all of my greatest fears.

[–] Angel_Of_My_Heart 18 years ago

It was her favorite toy, I think her mother mentions this in the film at some point, cause it was really one of the only things that her mother thought was safe for her to play with to play with caue she had that disease where your blood doesn't clot and you can bleed to death really easily can't remember what its called now, anyway thats what I think the white ball is all about.

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[–] vistavizion 17 years ago

Also interesting to note that the "creepy little girl with the white ball" was used previously in the 60s by both Mario Bava (in "Kill Baby Kill") and Fellini (in the "Toby Dammit" story in "Spirits of the Dead").

I can't remember if the director of FDC acknowledged this in the commentary or not.

[–] Clayman82 13 years ago

I think it might represent innocence as well. Once she got into guys, as her mother, said, she lost it (innocence, purity) forever.
That's why, whenever someone watches the website intro, he/she finds that white ball soon; that becoming a dark rotting mush means you are metaphorically guilty of stripping the little girl of her own innocence, then the adult Jeanine and her (Jeanine as a little girl) team up for giving you your own worst nightmares, which will bring you to kill yourself.

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[–] MerovingianGoddess 13 years ago

I am so pleased to see that someone else got the symbolism of the white ball, her innocense. Thus, because her innocense was taken away from her, Jeannie's adult role in cyber-afterlife is to get even with all who find entertainment with this dark taboo sexual torture.

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