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The Hank/Donna change destroys her character?

posted 10 years ago by Cradocus
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When you re-watch the film, Donna's character is borderline evil.

We see Hank (Donna), Arctor's supervisor continuously lie and push Arctor into insanity.

In the book, she isn't Hank so her actions are reasonable. When you combine the two characters (as the film does), some of the dialogue is brutal.

e.g. Telling off Arctor for taking D, saying that no-one pushed him into it.

It makes the 'remorse' she shows completely illogical since she is completely responsible (as Hank and Donna) for every development on the job.

It would be like pushing people into a gas-chamber every day for a year, and when it's over, suddenly wondering whether you went a little too far.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 10 years ago

When did she showed remorse again?

[–] m_j_harris 10 years ago

At the end in the fast food joint talking to her senior, she questions if she can keep on doing this and that he was a good guy.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 10 years ago

I really thought the woman in the Restaurant was another person. Mainly because the men call her by another name. I don't quite remember what it was but was something like Cindy. I know for sure it was another name though. So why?

[–] ecvz 9 years ago

Donna was just supposed to be her undercover name. So her "real" name in the movie was Audrey, but in the book, she doesn't have an undercover name, she's still "Donna".