Film & TV Donnie Darko
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The director's purpose was to let the individual decide what they wanted to take out of the movie, I think. He left it open for translation, so to speak. Some say that it has to do with the time continuum/conundrum, whatever, and how time was misplaced, as if time is a straight line and became curved, or whatever.
i love how this movie is made to have multiple interpetations. i have had so many conversations with people over this movies. they have even turned into some very interesting discussions.
i still have a hard time trying to figure out who frank was. i know he was the sisters boyfriend. but when donnie was the one seeing him with the rabbit suit on. was he a ghost? a spirit caught between worlds?
i still have a hard time trying to figure out who frank was. i know he was the sisters boyfriend. but when donnie was the one seeing him with the rabbit suit on. was he a ghost? a spirit caught between worlds?
Theres nothing to understand. At the end of the day it doesnt make sence. Darko's job is to realign space and time after the artifact from the future falls into his time line (the engine), thats the point of the movie, realigning everything, but at the end, the engine still falls back through time, except this time Darko dies, so there is no one to realign time, and the universe ends. End of story.
It can also be a modern day representation of the Last Tempation of Christ. Donnie was tempted by Frank, but in the end died for our "sins."
It can also be a modern day representation of the Last Tempation of Christ. Donnie was tempted by Frank, but in the end died for our "sins."
speak for yourself about 'no-one understanding it', for those who want some insight, watch the butterfly effect (which is a cheap imitation of D.D but does the trick like a for dummies book) and then watch donnie darko again or for the 1st time.
i love this movie......and it IS ART, if you only look past the fictional and find the metaphor of the WHOLE MOVIE.....its very deep WITH SO MANY LAYERS.............it goes beyond a 'boy with a time machine' or wanting to go back in time
a spoiler scene please don't read on if you don't want to know
what happens towards the end of the movie
when everything 'HAPPENS AGAIN', (deja vu?) and gretchen (jena malone) talks to a young boy and asks him what happened, to which he responds a plane fell on my neighbor, to me is a vital scene and also my favorite. It continues with the boy telling gretchen that the lady across the street, smoking the cigarette, is Mrs. Darko (donnie's mother), to which gretchen waves at. The boy asks did you know him? She says no i just moved here. Donnie's mother looks at gretchen and waves back, and cracks a semi smile (a sincere smile, kinda like she knew her? deja vu?) That scene and the smile HAS SO MANY INTERPRETATIONS, I don't really think from the director but for US the viewers. I think Mrs. Darko felt a relief that her son WAS NO LONGER IN PAIN FOR WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR. Donnie didn't commit suicide which i guess she felt it would come sooner or later............ On the flip side, SACRIFICES WERE MADE in part by donnie by giving up his life...............everything that HAPPENED BECAUSE OF WHAT HE WAS MADE TO DO (it was his instinct) which made known evil, but at the COST OF PEOPLE dying like his mother, sister and gretchen ALL OF WHICH HE traded HIS LIFE FOR THEIRS...........
i just saw this two nights ago and i knew there was a thread about this on SH... i just wanted to say that there's so many interpretations, and i was actually looking to get one on here, but after reading through this thread i guess you do have to come up with your own....
still, i did check wikipedia for info. and they did give a plausible explanation.... that the engine was actualy transported through the time portal? and the beginning of the movie, where he just gets up?? what was up with that?? that's where the portal showed up at the end right?
still, i did check wikipedia for info. and they did give a plausible explanation.... that the engine was actualy transported through the time portal? and the beginning of the movie, where he just gets up?? what was up with that?? that's where the portal showed up at the end right?
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